Live WordPress to Test Server

[Ahkamden]

Does anyone have experience transferring a live Wordpress site onto a test server like Xampp? Test server seems to be up and running ok. But plugins from the live site seem to be causing all kinds of hiccups on test server.

IE unexpected "}", when same things work fine live. And another plugin seems to cause "Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by..." when I try to access admin.

My first guess would be running different apache/MySQL versions which I'm going to look through. Just wasn't sure if anyone had some pointers to make it a little less of a headache.

[ergophobe]

Hmmm....

I do this all the time. Anytime I'm looking to do any major, I always transfer it like that.

I would not guess it's a matter of different Apache versions. I wonder if the files got mangled in transfer or something, because it looks like the syntax is wrong.

"Headers already sent" will happen anytime you have an error that gets sent to the browser. It's a secondary consequence of the other errors.