Comment by Mario Giambanco on "What do I need to study in order to get better in the topic of localhost?"

CommentWhat do I need to study in order to get better in the topic of localhost?

Mario Giambanco

Director of User Experience Development

Jun 10, 2017

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My #2 point

You've given us nothing to help you with.

Localhost where? Your computer? A cloud computer? Localhost is not necessarily YOUR localhost - it could be localhost on a cloud server.

What OS? Linux? MacOS? Windows? Hell, iPhone and Android phones have localhosts. Jailbreak your phone; you can run a webserver on it.

What are the requirements of the live site? Programming language? Any database? What web server is it running? NodeJS? Apache? Nginx?

localhost is no different then any other site; just that it answers to http(s)://localhost and not domain.com

What problem are you actually having? Can you access the site but it throws an error? Can you not access the site and it throws an error? Was the live site hard coded to a specific domain? You'd have a problem moving a Wordpress site to localhost as Wordpress usually hard codes the domain for routing into it's configs.

estevan carlos benson

Artist & Technologist

Jun 10, 2017

I posted another question with a specific problem with no responses so that's why I didn't mention it here. I'm assuming part of my problem is that I don't understand enough of the topic. As is typical, its tricky asking questions about a topic that is very unfamiliar.

My specific needs: I am attempting to create a local copy of a live wordpress website. The two tutorials I've found offer the same advice which I followed and doesn't solve my problems. So I want to understand the ins and outs of creating a localhost on OSX and understand how to better troubleshoot when encountering problems.

If tutorials are not helping, you could probably make use of books aimed for beginners. They would probably be massive and require a lot of time to read, but if tutorials are leaving you baffled, chances are you have a lot of gaps in your knowledge that is best filled by books.

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