Can't change urls after importing site

What issue or error are you experiencing?

I’m getting 404 errors when I navigate to any page other than home.

I’ve done a full backup of my live wordpress site using WP Migrate Lite, then dragged and dropped the zip file into Local. I managed to get the app up and running but none of the changes I’m making to database.sql seem to be reflected in the local app. I’ve done a search and replace within this file and changed the urls from the original live site url to my local app url but if I click on any of my homepage links I get a 404 page not found error. My wp-login page works however.

I’m not sure where else to try to update the urls, I see all the contents of these pages in my database.sql file and I’ve also made changes to local.sql but I assume this is a file generated when running the app, so maybe there’s no point in modifying this one.

Update: I’ve also added this to my wp-config.php

define( ‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://example.com’)
define( ‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://example.com’)

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks.


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Hi @DaniBZ

Here are some other troubleshooting steps you might try:

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