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Anonymous

Question

Need help importing a website

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
October 26, 2019
2 replies
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Hi all,

I recently obtained a client who needs me to help them with their website. An employee of theirs created the site but is now unavailable, so I can't ask them for help.

I was told they "probably" created the website with Dreamweaver. I downloaded the entire site via FTP. The employee saved all the pages as .php files.

When I open the files in Dreamweaver, nothing is linked. No images, no CSS, nothing. I get an ugly white page with unformatted text.

I dread having to relink everything manually; am I doing something wrong? I confess my web design experience is mostly in the HTML world, but I can figure this out if I can just get the pages to show up correctly.

Thanks for any help!

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Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Are you absolutely sure this isn't a WordPress site? Before you get too deeply invested in this project, can you post the URL to the online site?

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Anonymous

I'm pretty sure it's not Wordpress - it's hosted on Justhost.com, and when I logged in there's a link to WordPress right in the control panel, but there's no site listed.

The website is fortmeigs.org

BenPleysier

Community Expert

Is the code of the downloaded index.php file the same as when you view the source code of the online page?

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osgood_

Legend

To work with php files locally you need to set up a local testing environment. You can do that by installing XAMPP or MAMP, which come in free packages, do a Google search. Once you have one of them installed you need to put your website folder in the http folder in XAMPP or MAMP. Then define your site in Dreamweaver to point to your website folder in the http folder or you can access it by typing localhost/yourFolderName in a browsers url bar

You should also be aware that a database might be involved if the website is using php which will require you to download that file , which would normally be done via the websites control panel not via ftp access and then imported into your local version of phpMyAdmin which will be included as part of the downloaded XAMPP or MAMP package.

I would initially have a look at the code in the files you downloaded via ftp and see what is going on. That will provide you with a better idea of the structure and workflow being used.

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Anonymous

Thanks! Is the 'http folder' the same as 'htdocs'? I don't see an HTTP folder listed in the XAMPP folders.

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osgood_

Legend

Sorry its the htdocs folder where your website folder needs to go not http, that was a memory lapse.

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