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Split off from Migrating WordPress
Short answer: There might be ways to import something large, but it’s far easier to reduce the size of your database.
MySQL
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Migrating WordPress from one web hosting company to another.
The goal is to have a blog installation which is active and working, and will never be disabled and cannot be damaged in any way, and to copy it to a new place. For my tests, I used an entirely new host using a new “practice” domain name.
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https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server
https://www.mysql.com/
Ubiquitous database software.
more possibly coming later
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MediaWiki: https://bitnami.com/stack/mediawiki
https://bitnami.com/
I would NEVER EVER recommend regular humans go anywhere near running raw server software on their desktop. It’s a horror – I mean truly a horror unlike any you’ve ever imagined – to get that shit to work, to lock it down and to keep it running. If for some reason you did want to run a server, use a proper server distribution. A branch will eventually crop up for Unity Linux I’m sure, but there are Linux and BSD distributions which excel at this task.
So for us regular humans, a LAMP (software bundle) is the best thing to use. This is a collection of all the necessary tools which have been pre-configured to cooperate and bundled together in one .. much easier to use package. This concept has become wildly improved over the years, and I’ve used a bunch of different packages.
- my old bitnami scripts
- Very zombie: I have an ancient LAMPP I use for an archived MediaWiki reference.
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Now owned by VMWare
How the admin can change someone’s password.
The built-in “forgot password” feature will work for most people to change their own password. But this is useful for locking out users.
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https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html
This ran my websites and content management systems for years.
See also:
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Bundled server software >
Apache PHP MySQL PhpMyAdmin bundled for Windows.
This ran my earlier content management system for a while. I don’t recall if it was the first bundled server stack that I used.
coming later
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I originally preferred XAMPP Lite, but when it was abandoned I switched to Bitnami.
