I’ve seen other mentions of fixing path issues by updating the auto_prepend_file variable in the .htaccess file, but because my site is hosted on WPEngine, the use of the file was deprecated as of PHP 7.4.
Is there a way to avoid manually updating that file every time I copy to an environment?
]]>I have a large book website with multiple customizations and a 1GB+ DB. I am now creating a second book website and would like to use a duplicate of my 1st book website on it.
I would like to keep all the plugins / theme / pages but I don’t need all the content (there are 50K+ posts, I don’t need them on the new site, and the Gravity Forms plugin has filled up a lot of tables with MB of data, etc).
So, I want to copy the current site — without all its GBs of DB content.
How can I copy my current site, remove the ‘heavy’ DB content (but keep the tables functioning), and install it on a new hosting account with a new domain name?
I have spent the last week trying to do this with Duplicator Pro, Migrate Guru, All-in-one Migration, Xcloner (and another one) but NONE were successful.
Although I was able to reduce the Duplicator Pro file down to approx 380mb, it consistently threw up errors and timeouts when trying to install on the new account — which 10+ Siteground techs could not find the solution to — despite increasing ALL possible timeouts on the new account.
None of the others got that far.
ALL the others never even get past archive creation on the first site.
Can anyone suggest a method for doing this? Thanks!
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