Duplicate into a subfolder?

  • Resolved Rachel Goldstein

    (@rachelgoldstein71)


    8 years ago

    Hello,
    I am trying to duplicate into a subfolder that represents a subdomain where I can work on extensive changes without affecting the live site. When I run the installer, I get a warning that says

    [Warn] Directory/file count check found [18] files/directories.
    Any file/directory currently in the root path will be overwritten if it also exists inside the archive file. This check shows as a warning if it detects more than 10 files/directories. The notice is to prevent users from accidentally overwriting a large amount of files.

    I certainly don’t want to overwrite any files in the root! This is my entire purpose for cloning the site. Is it really going to overwrite files in the root?

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  • Cory Lamle

    (@corylamleorg)

    Hey Rachel,

    The directory where you place the installer and archive should be empty. If there are other files in that directory then they may get overwritten. Its basically the same thing as manually extracting the zip file on your own computer.

    If you unzip the file in a directory and the archive.zip has a directory called “foo” and the directory were your unzipping to as a directory called “foo” then the unzip process will overwrite the “foo” contents of the zip with what is in your local “foo” folder. Unzipping on top of other folders has the probability of overwriting existing files if the names match.

    Hope that helps~

    Nao Diga

    (@nao-diga)

    I’m trying this also. My idea is to move the live site to a subdomain like xx.site.com Then I can work on an updated site.com . Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a way to recover the data into a newly named database. So, it rebuilds the database into that location and removes the old one. Both can’t seem to exist under the same domain.

    Cory Lamle

    (@corylamleorg)

    If your looking to sync your database data then you might try this plugin:

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-migrate-db/

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