how to bring live magento site to localhost without effecting live site

Question

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.

Answer 1

First of all you will have to change the secure and unsecure base_url in your database. These can be found in the 'core_config_data' table. Paths:
web/unsecure/base_url
web/secure/base_url

If you want to access your local version of Magento via localhost, you'll have to set localhost as your base_url.

After that you need to clear your cache folder.

EDIT:
To install and run Magento on your local PC using XAMPP, please follow these steps: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/1_-_installation_and_configuration/installing_on_windows_with_xampp_and_wamp