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Running Perch locally
I want to test out a new feature on a client site running Perch, and am using MAMP locally but have never had a local development environment set up for Perch.
I would like to use the current live database, or a copy of it, for testing the new feature locally, but am not sure how to go about setting this up, and whether I would need to install Perch locally from scratch first.
Any pointers would be appreciated!
Hi Jon,
You can download all the website files to your local development. Export a copy of the live website database and import into MAMP. Then change the details in
/perch/config/config.phpto point to your local MAMP database.That should be it.
It's essentially the process detailed in this support note on moving a Perch site https://docs.grabaperch.com/perch/building/servers/how-do-i-move-a-perch-site/
Thanks guys - have run the Perch test, followed by install of the latest version of Perch locally running on MAMP. I have connected to the current live database via Sequel Pro, but the sql dump that I export from that app is too large for PHPMyAdmin in MAMP to import, even when I've upgraded to the latest version.
I would export and import the tables one by one but there seem to be different tables on my local, up-to-date version of Perch, compared to what's on the client server...
You can import it at the commandline.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17666249/how-to-import-an-sql-file-using-the-command-line-in-mysql
Thanks Rachel - have managed to get this to work now. I was wondering how I go about setting up Categories, as I'm looking at this in admin, and it has three fields - Title, Slug and another Title field. What do I need to put into each of these fields?
Hi Jon
this sounds like a different issue, I'd suggest that you raise a new thread for that.