Trouble importing data into development site

  • Overall: I am attempting to install a new theme in a development site and failing.

    Specifically:
    > I have a site (www.mysite.com)
    > I have set up a development site on another server (dev.mysite.com)
    > Using updraft plus, I cloned mysite.com and installed it on dev.mysite.com using the restore function
    > I modified the site urls in the database to reflect the development domain
    > I installed the new theme. This process required me to export my content into an XML file because the theme installer deletes all existing content
    > The new theme installed, but now when I try to import my content, the import fails at Step 2 with a 404 Error.

    My question: Any idea as to why the import is failing?

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  • Development servers and sandboxes give me the hives! If I absolutely must provide a development environment then I want an environment that exactly duplicates the production site. That means the same account type on the same provider with the same features… and that ain’t always easy.

    Since you have a dev server already… my first guess is to switch to a default theme like Twenty Seventeen and try to upload the XML again.

    You might need to split or chunk the XML file also as sometimes the export file is too large to upload.

    The 404 error concerns me a little but sometimes the error pages themselves are not always complete. A 404 is the only response available quite often.

    Moderator Jose Castaneda

    (@jcastaneda)

    THEME COFFEE MONKEY

    You might need to split or chunk the XML file also as sometimes the export file is too large to upload.

    This is a good way of going about it. I’ve had to do that before too.

    What I’m wondering is why are you using a plugin for this and not using a database import solution.

    Thread Starter jgold723

    (@jgold723)

    In this case the development server will actually become the live site, so as long as I can get this thing to work, I should be fine.

    One clarification I should note: Both the old (current) and new theme will work in this environment. I just can’t import content from the old theme.

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