By Pushkar Gaikwad on

I have installed XAMPP and now want to bring my whole website on my local desktop as it is very risky to edit live website. I am looking to take a full backup of the site with database. Than upload the mysql dump using phpmyadmin locally and than that's it, I guess.

I think this is all I have to do ? right ? anything else...

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geologyrocks commented

Just about, yep. Best thing to do is to make sure your website structure and database name, username and password are the same. Drupal should then run just fine on your local machine. Be warned that phpmyadmin might timeout when uploading a large sql file due to restriction on the length that a php script can run - this is set by your hosting company.

I wrote a blog post on my development setup here: http://www.geologyrocks.co.uk/node/1032

It's a bit more complex than what you want, but might give you some ideas.

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