How to transfer Processwire from local installation to online?

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@CliffG -

i've never had to do steps 5 or 6. 

Most if not all PW references in the database should be relative to the root;

the only thing that typically needs to be updated when moving a site would be a path that is stored by a module, for example admin custom pages stores the server path to the file it renders for the custom page, and those need to be reset when moving sites;

in CSS, there shouldn't be any URLs that would break when moving a site, they should be all relative to the templates folder.

you can also possibly avoid some of steps 5/6 by using vars which could be set in an _init.php, using a css.php for special rules that need to be generated on the fly, though i usually do those in the head since it's not that much.