How to view saved SQL file with formatting?

  • After moving to a new domain host, I was unable to restore function of a WP blog. All the data are fully backed up, and I can read the SQL file in Notepad++. Rather than strucggle to fix numerous links etc, I would like to set up a fresh WP installation and create new posts and pages from stored data. It would be much easier if I could see everything as it originally appeared. I did try setting up a virtual server on my PC just to look at things, but it didn’t work well and kept breaking.

    So I’m wondering if there’s a freeware program into which I could simply paste the SQL file, in whole (~2MB) or by sections, and see it as it originally appeared? I tried SeaMonkey, but that just displayed the same mess of text, image refs and links as well as all the HTML codes.

    Thanks for any help!

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  • The SQL file is not your site. It’s a dump of the database behind your site. To “see” it as your site was you need to create a new (can be local) WordPress website and connect that to your database. You’ll also need to use the same theme and plugins so that it all looks as the old site did. Then you can import the SQL file into the database and it should work. You will have to change the URL to match your local sites URL, but that’s easy to do following this guide.

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