How to bring a silverstripe website from online to local?

Hi. I’m here again.
I am trying to put an already existing silverstripe site from online to my local host. I would like to edit some things and I don’t want break something on the online one.
I’ve downloaded all the files and put them on my folder that i called kibs (using wamp).
Then i’ve downloaded the database, created a new one on localhost and uploaded it.
I went on mysite/ and edited the file config.php (global $databaseConfig; variable). I put inside the database details i’ve created on local. When I go on localhost/kibs I have an automatic redirect on the online website.
I tought I could dev/build but i pref not doing it (just because i’m not sure if it can be a problem).
Is possible that i have a redirect url in the database and everytime i try to access it locally, it automatically redirect me on that url? Thanks for help

Is that a 3.x install?
is there a “silverstripe-cache” folder? if so, clear its contents
There shouldn’t be anything in the db for url, unlike wp; you can grep your “mysite” folder or “themes” folder for anything that might have been hardcoded

Hi, i have silverstripe-cache and cleared it but still redirecting me on the online website. On my site i don’t have nothing that could redirect and now i’m checking the theme directory but even there i can’t see nothing for now.

Am wondering if it even hit your own files;
you can try opening developer tools (chrome) > network tools > preserve log
then visiting your localhost and then taking a look at the request flow, to ascertain if it even hits your ss install or if it is redirected beforehand

  1. If it hits your install (a hint would be something like a 301 redirect), then you can try with breakpoints in your _config.php, and later in your Page.php (or HomePage.php) to determine where it is causing
  2. If it doesnt hit, then it might
    a. htaccess redirection
    b. your own computer’s host file pointing to the server’s ip

Have a look at https://docs.silverstripe.org/en/3/getting_started/environment_management/ and pay particular attention to the bit about $_FILE_TO_URL_MAPPING. In addition, check your codebase for anywhere you might have hardcoded your production URL.

The problem is that I don’t have any _ss_environment file… I think i should re build the website because who did it just changed a lot of stuff in without writing down any instructions (or comments).
Thank you anyway!

@CW_Chong: I checked and i don’t get any 301. Checked the htaccess too. Can’t really understand this.
Thanks anyway!

Actually wait, i checked the wrong httaccess…:sweat_smile:
I have this but when i clean the redirect function it gaves me a internal server error.
What should i change?
### SILVERSTRIPE START ###

Deny access to templates (but allow from localhost)

php_value date.timezone ‘Europe/Rome’

<Files *.ss>

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

Allow from 127.0.0.1

Deny access to IIS configuration

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

Deny access to YAML configuration files which might include sensitive information

<Files *.yml>

Order allow,deny

Deny from all

Route errors to static pages automatically generated by SilverStripe

ErrorDocument 404 /assets/error-404.html

ErrorDocument 500 /assets/error-500.html

# Turn off index.php handling requests to the homepage fixes issue in apache >=2.4

<IfModule mod_dir.c>

	DirectoryIndex disabled

</IfModule>



SetEnv HTTP_MOD_REWRITE On

RewriteEngine On



RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^kibsstudio.com [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.kibsstudio.com/$1 [R=301,NC,L]



RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.kibsstudio.com/$1 [R,L]



RewriteBase '/'



RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]





# Deny access to potentially sensitive files and folders

RewriteRule ^vendor(/|$) - [F,L,NC]

RewriteRule silverstripe-cache(/|$) - [F,L,NC]

RewriteRule composer\.(json|lock) - [F,L,NC]



# Process through SilverStripe if no file with the requested name exists.

# Pass through the original path as a query parameter, and retain the existing parameters.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/landing*

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/demobot*

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/tmp*

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule .* framework/main.php?url=%1 [QSA]

EXPIRES CACHING

ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year" ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year" ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year" ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year" ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month" ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 month" ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month" ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month" ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month" ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year" ExpiresDefault "access 1 month" ## EXPIRES CACHING ##

SILVERSTRIPE END

php_flag log_errors on
php_value error_log /home/u902781820/public_html/error_log.txt

DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE AND THE LINES BELOW SSL_REDIRECT:kibsstudio.com

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (www.)?kibsstudio.com
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE AND THE LINES ABOVE SSL_REDIRECT:kibsstudio.com

Hi. I solved this problem.
The .htaccess file had those rewrite rules:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^kibsstudio.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.kibsstudio.com/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.kibsstudio.com/$1 [R,L]

I just deleted the rewrite rule. After that I had problems viewing the site in local, and then I realized that because the SS version was 3, i had to change my PHP version on Wamp. Now is working and i can work on it.

Thanks to who helped me!

That was really valuable. Also, I had a query, I run my own digital marketing agency. Initially I designed this website on wordpress but now I am thinking to migrate it from Wp to Silverstripe CMS. How can I do so? Do let me know. Here is the website https://www.facelessdigital.com/