Restore didn't work

Hey Wpgerd,

Checkout this question on the FAQs page I believe it may help or provide some clues about this issue:
-> Browse to: https://lifeinthegrid.com/duplicator-faq
-> Find question: “Why do I get a blank/white screen on my site?”

Hope that helps!

Hello Cory,

Sorry, the problem is the wrong version of WP. I normaly use german version and the restore gives me only the english version and I can’t change this. In my opinion Duplicator can’t work correct, if the wp-content folder was changed because of security-reasons ??
I test this with other WP-installations without this change. They work correctly.
I’m not really sure, but I think, this works also in the past with wp-installations and renaiming wp-content-folder. But actually WP rolls out an update of language-files. Possible this two thinks are the reason?

Gerd

Hi Wpgerd,

When Duplicator restores the new site it will reset the .htaccess file and backup the old .htaccess file because its in a new environment. Trying to update the .htaccess file to conform to the new environment is not really possible because of the sear amount of possible permutations.

Try and resave the settings for the iThemes Security plugin, or if you want to use the orginal .htacces access file you can by just finding it in your root directory and renaming it, however in most cases that solution doesn’t work for most users… Most users just resave the plugins that interact with the .htaccess file…

Let me know if re-saving the iThemes settings works for you…

Hello Cory,

now I had the time to make some tests with a WP-Installations where the wp-content-folder was renamed and the login-slug was changed
Here are my results:

The original .htacces always was restored as .htaccess.orign and a smaler Version without specifi code, was restored as .htaccess. So if you restore on the same Domain, Server and folder, I changed the names so the .htaccess.orign beome the activ version and the login-slug works.
In case you move to another it’s the same, but you should have a look, if there are other path to change.

The wp-config.php was restored without changes. So if you restore on the same same Domain, Server and folder there is no problem. If you move to another same Domain, Server or folder, you have to adjust the path of the two rows in this file
define( 'WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/path/domain.com/loginslug' );

So both security-changes can restored with Duplicator. I didn’t test your proposal to export the settings of iThemes Security because, the test WP works with the free Version of this plugins, there you can’t export/import. Other reason was that I want to have full control about the changes.

Hope that helps other users.

Gerd

Hello,

in addition to my post before. If you use .htaccess also for directory Protection and move to another domain, Server of folder, you also to adjust the path in .htaccess

<Files wp-login.php>
  AuthName "Admin-Bereich"
  AuthType Basic
  AuthUserFile /path/domain.com/htpasswd.123456789
  require valid-user
</Files>

Gerd

Thanks for posting your work-a-rounds!