Migrating site – Fatal Error from wordfence-waf.php

  • Really beating my head against the wall here. Wondering what I can do to try to resolve this.

    I am in the process of migrating a site from a dev.URL.com domain to the main URL.com domain. First, I tried Duplicator, and it kicked up a 200 Server error when I tried to install the .zip file. The error message reads as follows:

    “Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0
    Fatal Error: Unknown: Failed opening required ‘/home/[servername]/dev.URL.com/wordfence-waf.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php5/lib/pear’) in Unknown on line 0″

    Here are the steps I’ve tried:

    1. Disabling Wordfence on the dev site – running Duplicator again – got the same error message
    2. Uninstalling Wordfence on the dev site. This led to the dev site crashing. I had to COMPLETELY DELETE MY DEV SITE AND RESTORE it from a backup of a day ago. Thank god there was a restore point, because I was getting a 200 Server Error and could not get into my dev site. I almost lost 80 man-hours of work.
    3. Running Duplicator on the restored site. Tried again. Nope. This time, I had to delete my entire MySQL database to get the dev site back up and running.
    4. Downloading the dev site via FTP. Uploading the site to the main URL via FTP.

    Guess what? Getting the same “WARNING: Unknown … ” error as seen above.

    I have tried manually deleting the wordfence-waf.php file.

    No go.

    I have tried copying the wordfence-waf.php file from the dev.URL.com site to the URL.com site.

    No go.

    I’m kind of at my wit’s end here. I’m about to basically have to chuck 80 hours of design work, and start from scratch on a main URL.

    And oh yeah – the main URL.com site is totally down now. As in broken. As in not up on the web at all.

    Could really use some advice here.

    The main URL site; https://www.davidlafontaine.com/
    dev site: https://dev.davidlafontaine.com

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordfence/

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  • Thread Starter davelafontaine

    (@davelafontaine)

    OK, now the main site is up – however for whatever reason, none of the pages nor posts appears.

    Still trying to figure out why this process is so convoluted, and why none of the usual manners of easily moving a site works when you have Wordfence installed.

    I have moved many sites before from dev servers to live on the web, and I have never had this problem before.

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