migration wordpress to local machine does not work with all broken URLs except frontpage

I installed XAMPP on my Win 10 PC and migrated my wordpress website onto my PC. After migration, only the frontpage works. The other URLs would get a Not Found. The frontpage is only partially working but I see a page nevertheless.

I have change required data in wp_options. In wp_posts, I changed the URL in column guid. I have also tinkered with apache configurations but with no success. Setting debug to true in wp-config.php does not reveal anything unusual. May I know if you have any suggestions on what else I should tweak?

wp-admin works only if I do localhost/bs/wp-admin instead of localhost/wp-admin . I tried resaving the permalink but the links remain broken.

Thanks buttered_toast. The htaccess made the files visible. Is there another location where I need to change, I spot :

 
include(./php/depth2.php) file not found"

I use PHP Code Snippet (Otherwise known as XYZ PHP) plugin. I have marked up your answers. The themes seems to be defaulting to standard Avada themes.

Topic xampp migration Wordpress

Category Web

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When migrating a live site to local you need to do a couple of thing.

  1. update the site url, you can do this in wp_options column (phpmyadmin) or in wp-config.php
  2. You need to find and replace all instances of the old url, you can use better search replace, its a great plugin for exactly that
  3. update the .htaccess to indicate the correct path of your wordpress

That should be enough for most cases

EDIT

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Lets say that your wordpress site is located in htdocs/mysite

The RewriteBase and RewriteRule should be like this

RewriteBase /mysite/
RewriteRule . /mysite/index.php [L]

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