Blank screen when opening Duplicator installer.php in browser on Digital Ocean

Can you turn on WordPress debugging? Install the Developer plugin and enable the debug bar (and its extensions). This can show you WordPress debugging error messages and might help you track down what’s happening.

Hey Jean,

Try placing die(‘test’) in the installer.php file starting at the very top. If your on a budget/shared host they may have PHP configured to limited functionality. The only way to see what it doesn’t like is to validate where the code fails.

You can also create a simple test.php and place a phpinfo call inside to see if that renders…

Cheers~

Just to say, that i have the same problem with a blank screen, with a droplet on digital ocean.

I had it working on a previous droplet fine, but this time i have tried to configure fastcgi & opcache has turned on.

(Duplicator) Installer.php with an archive.zip and database.sql.

I an trying to work out what happened, but at the moment i’m at a loss. Any ideas ?

The Ubuntu 13 php does not come with json installed.

sudo apt-get install php5-json
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
php5-json
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 19.8 kB of archives.
After this operation, 119 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe php5-json amd64 1.3.1+dfsg-2 [19.8 kB]
Fetched 19.8 kB in 0s (25.3 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package php5-json.
(Reading database … 94254 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking php5-json (from …/php5-json_1.3.1+dfsg-2_amd64.deb) …
Setting up php5-json (1.3.1+dfsg-2) …
php5_invoke: Enable module json for cli SAPI
php5_invoke: Enable module json for fpm SAPI
php5_invoke: Enable module json for apache2 SAPI
php5_invoke: Enable module json for cgi SAPI
root@the-great-divide:~# apachectl restart

Then my installer.php worked.

I worked this out by starting in the ssh shell on the server

root@xxxxxxxx:~# php installer.php
hii

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function json_decode() in /root/installer.php on line 117

Hey @akfdev,

The plugin requires the json_encode function to work. Your server admin should be able to help you get it installed…

Thanks~

Thanks @lifeinthegrid

Once the php5-json was installed, it worked perfectly.

It’s a fantastic plugin, pure and simple.

Excellent! Glad you got it going…

Hi Great that the duplicator can work on Digital Ocean Droplets!

So should I just install sjon bij entering:

sudo apt-get install php5-json

Is that all?

@jeanp.
It works for me now perfectly, on my “WordPress on Ubuntu 13.10” Droplet, after adding the json. If it does not work though, just run it from the command line to see what else is missing using “php installer.php” (Not official but at least it showed me what my configuration was missing)

Thanks for the fast response! I will try that!

I would also like to use the LEMP stack on my droplet instead of LAMP stack.

So Ngix instead of appache. Does this have any influance when mygrating a website you think?

sorry no experience. but at least you can snapshot and try it repeatedly until you get it right.

Funny I’ve got the duplicator working on several different VPS including Digital Ocean. But now I’m stuck on this new VPS I’m working at and I’m getting the same blank screen on calling the installer.php in a browser.

Have installed LAMP, as well as the php5-json. Still nothing.

I’ve tried all the solutions above btw

What was the result from using it on the command line on the server ?

php installer.php

I got some undefined index at the top

`

PHP Notice: Undefined index: SERVER_NAME in /var/www/html/installer.php on line 168
PHP Notice: Undefined index: REQUEST_URI in /var/www/html/installer.php on line 168

I was hoping it would show up a missing library or something, sorry i am at a loss now on how to fix it. Hopefully somebody else will have some ideas on how to find out whats wrong. The two errors shown i would expect as it’s just been run from the command line.