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Ok, yesterday I decided to migrate my website to a localhost because I have to make some major changes and I need to test them in local before I can put them online.
Updraftplus looks like the way to go but after 24hr I haven’t made it jet…I have done the back-up of my site in Google Drive and I’ve install a fresh WP in my local machine using WAMP. The WP new installation in the local machine have a different username, database, passwords than the online website, is this a problem in anyways?
I’ve followed the guide https://updraftplus.com/faqs/how-do-i-migrate-to-a-new-site-location/ and in point 3 I had some issues:
1st method don’t work at all in my local, there is no Key at all and just refresh the page (after some times)
3rd method don’t work because I can’t set the google drive properly so that they are both connected to the same (I don’t understand why)
At the end the easiest way so to download the backup from GDrive and put it manually in the Updraft folder but I would like one of the other method to work since to do the same in the Server will take me forever….And finally I manage to have the backup ready for a try, I selected everything: theme, plugin, media and to change the links but nothing worked. Some content was pass and other not. The theme the is only my child and not my main, media there are the files but I can’t see them in the preview, plugin only one out of 15, my login name and password was changed. There are some messages of error:
First the chrome error window say something like:”The file you are updating is empty, try to update something more concreate” (I’ve translated the message from italian)
Second in the log an error is reported.Please help me, tell me what I have to do…
Ok…I’ve tried with a different site and I still have problems when I restore…plugin and themes give this kind of mistakes…
Hi,
To help us determine the cause of the issue, could you send us a copy of the restoration log? This log can be found in the ‘wp-content/updraft’ directory of the site, via FTP.
The contents will be too long to post here directly, but you can use an online service such as Dopbox or Pastebin, and post the link here. You can also set your reply to private.
From the screenshot, it appears that there may be a permissions issue with the wp-content/plugins directory. Could you check the permissions for this directory (They should be set to 755).
Smashing Magazine has a good guide on the file permissions required for WordPress:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/05/proper-wordpress-filesystem-permissions-ownerships/#file-and-folder-ownership-for-wordpressBest Wishes,
David NHi,
From the logs, it does appear that there is a permissions issue with your localhost. You will need to ensure that WordPress has the correct file permissions and ownership.
Smashing Magazine has a good article on the required permissions/ownerships required for WordPress:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/05/proper-wordpress-filesystem-permissions-ownerships/#file-and-folder-ownership-for-wordpressEach site connected to your UpdraftPlus account, including localhosts, take up a licence. However, if you find that any licences have been taken up by temporary or test sites that are no longer needed, you can open a support ticket here, and we can reset those licences for you.
Best Wishes,
David NHi,
Would it be possible to also send us a copy of the restoration log for the small site? This will allow us to compare the two restorations.
Could you also attempt to restore the larger site excluding the Plugins section, and send a copy of that log?
Best Wishes,
David NHi,
The log indicates that your destination WordPress install is not set up correctly. Specifically, its file permissions do not allow PHP (and hence WordPress) to over-write files within the wp-content directory. As such, WordPress (and hence its plugins) cannot write files to disk (such as the files in your backup which it wants to restore).
You need to make sure that WP is setup such that all files are owned by and writeable by the user that PHP runs as in your webserver setup.
Best wishes,
DavidHi,
I’m a little bit concern with the security of my site, should I let it like this when I put it back online or should I change the permission?
The proper permissions fr WordPress are:
- All files should be 644
- All directories/folders should be 775
- wp-config.php should be 660
All my media files that have some “special italian letter” like é è ì à ù in the original file name are not showing up, not even in the WP media section.
Could you send us a copy of the latest restoration log for the site? Could you also check the ‘w-content/uploads’ directory, and see if the files themselves are present?
The log for the new site that you attempted to restore appears to show the restoration being timed out while restoring the database. Could you (or your hosts) check the maximum execution time allowed for scripts on the server?
Best Wishes,
David N
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