I have a working wordpress site online, running on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. I've typically just edited the files via FTP, but I'm trying to get more organized. I'm setting up a development machine with VirtualBox running Ubuntu 16.04 (with Windows as the host OS) so I can experiment. I'm having trouble getting wordpress to load.
I've copied the website files into the VM. I have PHP 7.0.12 installed in the VM. I have the database copied over and it's running fine in the VM. I start the PHP server with
cd /path/to/website/public
php -S 0.0.0.0:8080
When I visit localhost:8080 from Chrome in Windows, I get a Page not found error in chrome. However, I create a public/info.php file with <?php phpinfo(); ?>, and then visit localhost:8080/info.php, I get the correct PHP info page.
I also tried configuring Nginx inside the VM like I have it on the real server. I get the exact same results as with the built in PHP server.
When I visit localhost:8080/wp-admin, I get redirected to the admin page of the live server.
Any idea on what I'm missing or how I might go about debugging the issue?
