need to disable cron for duplicator to run

  • Resolved njwp

    (@njwp)


    5 years, 9 months ago

    Not a support request, but putting it here in case it helps someone else.

    I was getting a ‘host interrupt’ message trying to run duplicator. I found that if I disabled cron then the duplicator would run correctly.

    To disable cron you put this line in wp-config.php:

    define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true)

    Make sure you remove that line after you have run duplicator, as cron is needed for wordpress to run correctly.

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  • Thanks for the update! That is a bit odd, I haven’t come across that one yet, maybe your host would be able to shed more light for us.

    Cheers~

    Thread Starter njwp

    (@njwp)

    Thanks. I’m doing a job for a foreign client with foreign hosting so I’m not even going to attempt communication with hoster ??

    Could be something to do with using a temporary (host supplied) URL or a resource issue. Really not a problem for me to disable cron when I need to.

    The reason I thought of doing it is when the duplicator job got stuck I went to see if I could see any error messages in host cpanel and cron was running every 2 seconds, so it seemed like a good idea to try disabling it. I think it was the duplicator job that was kicking off the cron, because when I cancelled the duplicator job, cron did go back to normal frequency

    That makes sense, thanks for the update!

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