Made a copy of a website, now neither of them works

  • Our programmer made a copy of a website to host it on our server and now neither of the sites are working. The homepage opens but some of the inside pages does not; and this changes according to the site, meaning, the pages that aren’t working on the original site are not the same that are malfunctioning on the copy.

    Having some things not working on a newly migrated site is normal, but, the original website should still be working and it is not in this case! This is what puzzles me!

    We are using WordPress 4.3.1
    It is a customized theme, not made by our team and our programmer (who has migrated tons of sites before) does not know how to fix it.

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  • if the database and all the files were copied correctly AND the restore to a new database and the files were copied to a proper location AND all the .htaccess files were correctly edited AND all the URL addresses in the DB were renamed properly, then both sites should be working fine.

    If there is a problem with both sites, something was messed up. I understand the programmes has done this many times before, but one missing step or error could cause problems.

    persoally I use a premimum plugin (no affiliations to plugin other than a user) called BackupBuddy to backup/move/replicate sites for me.

    I would go back to a backup of the original site and restore it and remove the ‘new’ site and start again.

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