# How to clone wordpress local website

**URL:** <https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-clone-wordpress-local-website/33674>\
**Category:** WordPress Questions\
**Tags:** windows-10\
**Created:** [October 11, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-clone-wordpress-local-website/33674 "2022-10-11T20:41:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![hibranda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecc23a/32.png) [@hibranda](https://community.localwp.com/u/hibranda)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-clone-wordpress-local-website/33674/1 "2022-10-11T20:41:13Z")

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I have a wp files i received and im not familiar with wp nor local. i want to clone this website locally and then upload it to a remote machine on aws lightsail. followed some tutorials but got stuck with the db creation locally

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**Author:** ![sambrockway](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/sambrockway/32/18726_2.png) [@sambrockway](https://community.localwp.com/u/sambrockway)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-clone-wordpress-local-website/33674/2 "2022-10-12T17:09:51Z")

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Hello @hibranda - first of all, welcome to the Local community! 👋

Have you had a chance to review this help doc about how to import a site into Local?

You’ll need a `wp-content` folder as well as a `sql` database dump for it to properly import.

> **[How to Import a WordPress Site into Local](https://localwp.com/help-docs/getting-started/how-to-import-a-wordpress-site-into-local/)**
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> Local is pretty flexible about being able to import a WordPress site from a archive. There are two required things that Local needs for the import to be successful: The folder (containing plugins…

If you have the proper files you can just drag and drop the `zip` file right onto Local.

Let me know if that helps,

Sam 👩🏼‍💻