by sideburn » 18. February 2023 18:37
Initially the point of this thread was to figure out a way to keep using the “one-click” WP install feature offered by DesktopServer.
With that said, it looks like that path is derailing so If you are going to abort that mission and just migrate out, then my suggestion for the easiest solution would be to install MAMP (https://www.mamp.info) on your Mac (no need for the pro version, the free one should be fine for your needs) and export your databases (you can use phpmyadmin in DesktopServer / xampp installation) and then import them into the MAMP database instead. Then change the ip’s in your hosts file to point to the MAMP IP and port if needed but might not need to unless it’s at a port. localhost ip should work fine for you since you do not have multiple servers.
From that point you can toss DesktopServer altogether a carry on with MAMP instead.
You’ll lose the one-click Wordpress site setup convenience of course, so to spin up your WP sites in the future you’ll have to add your new domain names manually on your hosts file and then create the new directory in MAMP and download Wordpress.zip, extract into new directory, create a new database (you can use phpmyadmin again for this but within MAMP) setup WP-config.php to point to the new database and the visit your domain in a browser and Wordpress will kick in and take you through the setup.
** be sure to match the $table_prefix in your wp-config.php to match the prefix set in your original database you are migrating!
*** php 8 should not be a problem with your Wordpress installation(s).
I wouldn’t bother with XAMPP anymore.
Just my 2 cents.
Good luck!
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sideburn on 18. February 2023 19:00, edited 8 times in total.