Site not online, just a blank wp-install

Never mind, I have re-installed my ‘old’ website for now; I have uninstalled Duplicator; and I’ll use another way to get my site on line.

Frankly, what I do not understand, is that WordPress does not come with a standard menu-item that easily and with a step-by-step wizard let’s you move your website from one location to another. Or at least have a step-by-step instruction manual somewhere (if there is, I haven’t found it yet).

This is turning out to be an annoying ending of an otherwise interesting and even fun process (learning to build the website in WordPress).

Hey theokoopman,

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 does the WordPress installer show up after running the installer.php file?”

In many cases this is usually because the MySQL server versions between the system your working on are too far apart and the import process can’t properly run the SQL scripts.

Hope that helps!

Hi Cory,

Thanks for your reply.

I’ll check it out. I didn’t get any errors, though, which is what I would expect if there were any discrepancies with the character sets or with incompatibility of MySQL server versions.

For now, the struggle continues.

Might have a fix for you.

Can you just quickly confirm, you are on Windows machine obviously (WAMP), and I guess you have CAPITAL letters in your wp-config.php file as $table_prefix values, right?

Something like: $table_prefix = 'CapitaAl_';

If you do, try using only lowercase characters as $table_prefix values and see if that works. Curious to see if that helped you.

Kind Regards

Thanks Happy Coder,

The latest version of the Scanner will also warn if it detects tables with upper-case letters, just to help inform users of the situations…

Yes would be great to inform users about the upper- and lowercase differences on Windows and Mac systems regardless of the plugin’s capabilities.

Basically stick to lowercase table names.

Thank you Cory.

Hope this did the trick for theokoopman as well.

@theokoopman Would be interested to hear from you if this solved the issue for you.

Thanks for the update!