title: how to bring live magento site to localhost without effecting live site
body: <p>i want a live site to be on local host and without effecting any functionality of live magento site. i have tried many way of doing that but have not get any result from it.</p>
  
  <p>steps i tried are :
  1. taken database from magento live site by entering into cpanel(by ftp access) > phpmyadmin > exported all the files to my local machine and i imported all the data to my local phpmyadmin.</p>
  
  <p>2.taken all neccessary files from cpanel > file manager > all files (for example p_html, .htpassword, .trash, access log, etc file and many more) and put it on my local machine and then  i put the file in folder and kept it into C:\xampp\htdocs\ all file ( in folder ).</p>
  
  <p>3 Replaced the path of live site with localhost:1234 in the all sql files where applicable taken in step one.</p>
  
  <p>but still not working .
  Any help will be appreciated....</p>