Hello, I am importing a live WP site so that I can make a number of changes to it locally, and then to export to live. I am easily able to do this manually by creating a quick WP app, FTPing all WP files to the new directory and then importing the DB.

The only thing that is left outstanding are the URLs in the database which still point to the live site. As these are often serialised a simple search and replace is not sufficient enough to do this.

On most servers (and formerly on Wampserver) I used the handy Search Replace DB from Interconnect: https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB
You just place this in your WP root folder and it reads your wf-config.php file to connect to the database. Then it allows you to do all the search and replaces you need.

This worked fine on Wampserver but it's throwing an AJAX error on Laragon. It does the initial WP DB config retrieval but when you actaully run the search and replace it stops after a minute or so with:
"The script encountered an error while running an AJAX request.
If you are using your hosts file to map a domain try browsing via the IP address directly."

So my main questions are:

Has anybody else used Search Replace DB from Interconnect on Laragon with success? What tools are people using to change their WP DB URL entries? I'd rather not go down the WP CLI route, or install a plugin if possible.

Thank you.

Hi, first off great work overall. Laragon seems like a very powerful tool.

I'm wondering if there is simple way to allow my team to sync the configuration we need on our project (e.g. mysql version, php version, etc). Ideally if we could have some sort of config file in our git repo that would be awesome. Is this possible with Laragon?

Re: [Tutorial] How to add another Apache version

Hi,

Thanks for the awesome efficient and light package.
I'm using it for developing Magento2 which at version 2.3 uses Elasticsearch (https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch) as faster catalog search.

I'm able to hook the elasticsearch.bat through user.cmd but it leaves a Cmder window open. Is there any way to run custom commands silently on background (like nodejs does)?

I am trying to initiate a WordPress website but when I do it with the quick app section, it doesn't download the zip file (and don't give any error messages or logs).
It does creates the database, but don't proceed with the download.
Anyone knows how to fix it? Thanks!

Adding another MySQL version is very easy and safe with Laragon.
Hint: This tutorial also applies for MariaDB.
https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.2.6/#os_group=windows
[Download the MariaDB 64-bit version]

Download MySQL 5.7 (64-bit) or 32-bit:
https://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.7/mysql-5.7.18-winx64.zip Extract the downloaded to: {LARAGON_ROOT}\bin\mysql\mysql-5.7.18-winx64 (see below Note for MariaDB) C:\laragon -- bin -- mysql -- mysql-5.7.18-winx64 -- ............. Select the new version at: Laragon Menu > MySQL > Version > mysql-5.7.18-winx64

Very easy huh. That's all forks!

Note: If you use MariaDB, extract it to: {LARAGON_ROOT}\bin\mysql\mariadb-10.2.6-winx64, Laragon will automatically create correspond DataDir for MariaDB on data/mariadb

With Laragon, you can add projects and packages to the system with ease.
To make it even easier, Laragon provide "Quick app" and "Quick add" features.
On these features, when downloading, Laragon interacts with curl. However, some users had issues with downloading. The reason was: Laragon could not interact to get status from curl.
To overcome it, I implemented a new download method as a fallback.
You can apply the patch here:
https://github.com/leokhoa/laragon/raw/dev/laragon.exe

If Laragon can not communicate with curl for any reason, after a DownloadWaitTime, the fallback download will take over.
The default value of DownloadWaitTime is 1500 milliseconds (1.5 sec)
You can change it in Menu > Laragon > laragon.ini (for example: 4 sec):

DownloadWaitTime=4000

If you want to bypass curl, just set DownloadWaitTime=0

DownloadWaitTime=0

Your download issue should be fixed.

Many thanks @fysioski for your time and dedicated supports.
Nice users like you are the reasons I keep making Laragon better.
Many Laragon's users will be grateful for your kindness.
Cheers!

Hi! Someone could me help solve this problem.
I tried several methods but none works , I don't want to lose my data . Thanks !!

Hello,

I saw that you tried using MariaDB as default, but that didn't work out well.
You should use Percona instead, which is a 100% compatible drop in replacement for MySQL - free and open source.

So while using Percona you only gain benefits, even as developer (besides performance and security).

For example:
"Another important aspect is the ability to monitor and obtain statistics on the operation of the database, considering a very broad set of variables that include the very valuable performance counters per table, index and user."
Quote by https://blog.pandorafms.org/percona/

Ive tried installing to trusted and making sure all the files are how they should be, but nothing happens.

Re: Your connection is not private

I'm experiencing the same problem as the related topic above. Only that I'm using a {project}.test instead of {project}.dev and I'm still getting the connection not secure error.

I have researched and tried every possible thing I could find but it doesn't seem to work.

Laragon screen.

Hi, I just found Laragon, and I decided to give a try. I've searched around, but I could not find an answer for this...

I already have applications like composer, git, heidisql, notepad++, putty, winscp, yarn installed on my machine. And for things like heidisql, notepad++, putty, winscp, etc, I've already spent a good deal time configuring them to my needs. I would really prefer Laragon to use my existing installations rather than whats in the bin directory. In other words, I would like Laragon to go to "C:\Program Files\HeidiSQL\heidisql.exe" for HeidiSQL instead of "C:\Laragon\bin\heidisql\heidisql.exe"; and so on for other applications.

How can I do this? I'm thinking maybe using symlinks from the Laragon bin to the applications directory where my installs are, but I was wondering if there was a better way. I grep-ed the Laragon directory, but I could not find how these tools are being defined by file location or where to override them. I noticed the Tools menu has a link called 'Configuration...' that opens up the Profile.tools file, but it wasn't clear to me if that would solve my problem either.

Thanks!

It would be nice to have a reversed proxy setup in laragon. Nginx is already there but it would be nice to have it in reversed setup also.

Hi, yesterday I tried running newest version of Laragon portable on a fresh install of Windows 8.1.

I discovered that the "Quick App/Add" dialog doesn't progess in any processbars. I guess this happens for for all downloads?

I tried downloading both Wordpress with Quick App and Apache with Quick Add. Both of them got downloaded in the temp/downloads folder, but in the dialog window, both still said 0% downloaded and nothing more happend.

I also tried the mentioned patch on the following topic but this didn't make any difference, the Quick App dialog is still only showing 0% while downloading completes in background:

https://forum.laragon.org/topic/1276/wordpress-quick-app-does-not-download-at-all/31

We want laragon for Ubuntu. Any good news?

Hello,

I have trouble running Laragon, it gives this error and I do not know how to fix it. Can you help me? please.

I installed Laragon 4.0.2 but i cannot add e.g. node or git via the Tools > Quick Add feature. It is not downloading the packages. I didn´t test all but phpmyadmin or yarn are installing.
I am using Win10 64bit v1809. I tried disabling UAC, that didn´t help. Any ideas?

Its been years, but i was going through an old hardrive and found a old backup of my website i wanted to try re-start up ive added all the files to my localhost, hosted all the SQL, but non if it seems to work like it once used to, ive googled tons but all results say that mysql was obsolete with PHP.7? is there any versions or other programs i could use that would fix this in anyway? im out of experience and wouldnt know how to go about transfering sql to sqli or recoding it to fix the issue.

mysql_connect.php is as such:
<?php
$conn = mysql_connect('IP','ROOT','PASS');
if (!$conn) {
echo "Unable to connect to SQL Server";
exit();
}
else {
$slct_db = mysql_select_db('DATABASE', $conn);
if (!$slct_db) {
echo "Unable to Connect to Database";
exit();
}
}
?>

When i share a vhost the ngrok url shows the localhost instead of the vhost site.

Hello I updated to a new version of laragon and the git commands are no longer being recognized on the terminal, my current version is the 4.0.4.

Thanks for any help