Q:

Adapt downloaded WordPress website to a fresh WP installation

I am kinda new to WordPress. My boss gave me a wordpress site (all the files, literally copied and pasted) and told me to make some changes. Thing is - I have no idea how to incorporate those files to my local wordpress directory so that it would work perfectly.
I managed to copy wp-config.php to my XAMPP/htdocs/ during a fresh install of WP to ensure that the database setting is correct (as other answers for simillar questions stated). After the installation, during which I had no errors and problems I copied all the contents from those downloaded files and replaced those fresh installed WP files. The problem is that... nothing changed... I still have a fresh install of WP instead of the site which I wanted to work on.
Could you help me with this? I am a real noob in WP :/.

A:

check these articles ( this and this ) .
They will give you ideas about how to move wordpress files between different hosts .

