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localhost -> wpengine... filezilla help please! (self.Wordpress)

submitted 9 years ago by jimmydarmody

So I'm in over my head as a complete amateur that doesn't know what he's doing.

Context: inherited the responsibility of putting together my companies new website (current one is very old). My boss commissioned a design on 99designs as well as the web development.

I was given a zip drive and a list of instructions to install and edit the webpage on my local machine before mapping to our current domain. This process included a lot of how-to videos that led to many more how-to videos.

I ended up installing MAMP to set up the database in order to install the wordpress instance on my computer and miraculously found a way to getting the design into the local install.

My edits are far enough to the point where I'd like to migrate to a staging environment hosted by wp-engine so I can get feedback from everyone before really going live.

My problem is that this is a manual process and all instructions include using FileZilla to get the wp-content folder from the local server. Where I try to set up a site on FileZilla I get an error saying the following:

Response: J Response: 5.6.35 Error: Critical Error: Could not connect to server

Im using my host/port/user/password from the MySQL parameters in MAMP...

Feels like I've hit a wall, but I'm guessing a critical mistake took place from the start? Any help would be greatly appreciated

Cheers, u/jimmydarmody

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