Steve

For me, I think it was a conflict with Simple Scripts (or Fantastico?) automatic WordPress installation and the .htaccess file getting messed up in the process of duplicating. Adding htaccess to the file extensions (to ignore) in duplicator package options worked for me.

In my opinion, though, the best solution is to work with a manual installation of WordPress. The way I see it at this point is if I’m competent enough to be moving copies of sites to my local machine then I’m competent enough to install WordPress manually. Makes for good housekeeping. I’m currently redoing all of my installations to make life a little simpler.

Cory, thanks for writing this plugin. It’s super useful!

Thanks Kebie,

That works! I added htaccess to the “File Extensions” box in Package Options in Duplicator (click on the gear icon). I saved the options and created a new package.

My local installation of InstantWP likes this much better.

I too am moving an automatically intalled cpanel version of WordPress from Bluehost to my local machine. I have not tried to do any of this with a manually installed version.

Hi Cory,

I’m experiencing the same issue as thebeeobee. I tried your suggestion to install the developer version of Duplicator and I’m still having the same problem: after running installer.php the process stalls before step 2. The browser doesn’t know what to do with .php files and asks what program to open with or where to save the file.

I want to bring a duplicate of my site to my local machine and run the wordpress install using InstantWP so I can work on it locally.

Any ideas?