(from my post at Local Community)

I use WordMove to mirror local Wordpress installations and DB data back and forth from my Local development machine to the remote server.

If you plan to test this, do it on a new site.

Prerequisite

ssh into your local site (In the Local dashboard, right click on the site name and select Open SSH):

1) First thing first, run :

apt update
apt upgrade

2) Add essential packages

apt-get install build-essential git wget rubygems

3) WordMove needs ruby 2.4 or newer. First install ruby-install following the guide at https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install#install

wget -O ruby-install-0.7.0.tar.gz https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install/archive/v0.7.0.tar.gz
tar -xzvf ruby-install-0.7.0.tar.gz
cd ruby-install-0.7.0/
make install

4) List supported Rubies and their major versions

ruby-install

5) Install ruby 2.4.x (was 2.4.7 when I wrote this) in /usr/local

ruby-install --system ruby 2.4.7

6) Log out of the terminal and ssh into it again

You’ll now have the prerequisites to install WordMove

WordMove setup

  1. ssh into your local site (In the Local dashboard, right click on the site name and select Open SSH)
  2. cd /app/public
  3. Edit wp-config.php and make sure it has the same table prefix as the remote site, don’t change anything else.
  4. Install WordMove: gem install wordmove
  5. Create the Movefile by doing: wordmove init
  6. Edit the Movefile and add Production (and maybe more environmentes)
  7. Pull the remote site, including database and media doing: wordmove pull -all

An exsample Movefile

local:
  vhost: "http://soderlind.dev"
  wordpress_path: "/app/public" # use an absolute path here

  database:
    name: "local"
    user: "root"
    password: "root"
    host: "localhost"

production:
  vhost: "https://soderlind.no"
  wordpress_path: "/ABSOULUTE/PATH/TO/WORDPRESS" # use an absolute path here

  database:
    name: "wp"
    user: "wp"
    password: "PASSWORD"
    host: "localhost"

  exclude:
    - ".git/"
    - ".gitignore"
    - ".sass-cache/"
    - "node_modules/"
    - "bin/"
    - "tmp/*"
    - "Gemfile*"
    - "Movefile"
    - "wp-config.php"
    - "wp-content/*.sql"

  ssh:
    host: "SSHHOST"
    user: "SSHUSER"