Switching over my wordpress site to a web server

Shicky

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I've done most of a wordpress site for a family members business. Unfortunately I was also moving house at the time so I installed XAMPP light and developed it just on my local machine as I had no net. Now I need to move across the website from my machine to his web server. Now how do I go about this?

I've given him an old machine I had which I use to access the web server and which he can use to 'develop' on so to speak. However im a bit unsure about transferring it on my machine to the server as mentioned. Will anything get messed up transferring from a 'local' webby on xamp light to the full one?

I dont see an awfully simple switchover from some short browsing?
 
The files should be fine. That's a copy and paste job upload to the server.

The database you will need to save out and import to the web server, probably via phpMyAdmin or similar.

Then, you will probably need to make a few amends to the config file and any database entries that may have the old URL included. Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with WP to tell you which ones may contain it.
 
http://<IP or FQDN of XAMPP server>/wp-admin/export.php

Export everything and import it on the new install. Then copy the theme and any other files you've changed over.
 
That sounds a lot less tricky than my plan.

So I would download the latest WP version. Do a clean install on your web server. Paste your custom files/themes into the new install and import your exported content.
 
Thanks for that, I went to export it there now but got this stuff...

Warning: strip_tags() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in D:\xampplite\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\formatting.php on line 2773

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at D:\xampplite\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\formatting.php:2773) in D:\xampplite\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\includes\export.php on line 44

The output was much lengthier than that when I go to download the export file, I assume this means its borked and im screwed?
 
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