Small problems when moving site…

  • Resolved Kai J.

    (@kjoussen)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hello.

    I installed this plugin on my live web page (WP 4.1.1., Hosted by myself at home on a Synology NAS) and mnade a complete error-free backup. Thumbs up so far ??

    I copied this backup to my laptop in d: \ xampp \ htdocs and started the restore.
    I’ve really gone through the description, made everything as described and on the the first look everything worked fine. No error messages, files are there, database tables are filled … only the website does not come up under xampp ….

    I processed the error messages individually and found out the following:
    Duplicator obviously does not fix path-entries in index.php, wp-blogheader.php etc.

    In the installation on my NAS there are entries like:
    /var/services/web/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php

    Now on the notebook it should be:
    d:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php (or even only /wordpress….)

    Fixing this and removing the entry “virtual_host_file = .bla … bla bla” (which is probably added from Synology) in the wp-config anything goes well. Hurra!

    My question is: if I’m going to further develop locally on my notebook and going to duplicate back to my life-system, i assume I will have similar problems? Only this time the other way round…won’t I?

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

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  • Hey Kjoussen,

    Unfortunately you will have to update the wp-blog-header.php manually. Out of the box WP doesn’t have any dynamic paths in that file so since it is very uncommon that it is ever updated the extraction routine does not update that file. The only updates made at install time are to:

    – wp-config.php
    – .htaccess
    – Database entries

    Cheers~

    Thread Starter Kai J.

    (@kjoussen)

    OK, understood.

    It is not really a problem, as:
    a) i’m the only one who will do this anyway
    and
    b) i’m not planning to do this every day.

    So i just have to keep in mind to change the entries after uploading and everything is fine.
    As far as i’ve found out index.php and wp-blogheader.php are the only files anyway i have to touch.

    Or am i wrong?

    I believe that would be correct if those are the only files you seem to have found were modified with a path change…

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