Cloning a web site; after pushing live the web site is just blank

Derek

Still learning the ins and outs of Enhance.

I cloned my web site to a staging web site, am finally happy with the new site, and migrated it back over the original site without error. All the files seem to be there, and the ones I've checked are identical as I would expect. DNS settings haven't changed. No errors are thrown.

But when I load the web site in a browser I simply get a blank page. View page source results in a completely blank page as well.

Something basic isn't working, and I'm only on my first cup of coffee so I'm still missing it.

What am I missing?

Adam

It could be a hard coded path or domain somewhere in the code causing an exception in your PHP code. Which CMS is it?

Derek

It's just WordPress.

Derek

Would it be better to submit a ticket?

Derek

OK, working on this.

Interestingly when I tried to visit the site it was blank, but I could log in to admin, where the theme I'd previously installed turned out not to be installed. So something about the clone was apparently incomplete.

Regardless, I'm getting a ton of Elementor errors now so I should be able to isolate this. I'll report back.

Quick report: looks like the clone failed to import themes and plugins correctly, so I guess I need to try the clone a third time:

The plugin betterdocs-pro/betterdocs-pro.php has been deactivated due to an error: Plugin file does not exist.

The plugin betterdocs/betterdocs.php has been deactivated due to an error: Plugin file does not exist.

The plugin essential-addons-elementor/essential_adons_elementor.php has been deactivated due to an error: Plugin file does not exist.

The plugin image-optimization/image-optimization.php has been deactivated due to an error: Plugin file does not exist.

The plugin redis-cache/redis-cache.php has been deactivated due to an error: Plugin file does not exist.

The plugin wp-rocket/wp-rocket.php has been deactivated due to an error: Plugin file does not exist.

adil

It seems like the migration of the files didn't complete at some point

Derek

adil

Yep. We'll chalk this one up to user error. Those top two check-boxes on the Push Live box that are checked by default? If you added plugins, and themes, or whatever you need to uncheck the appropriate box.

I'd blame this on not enough coffee, but in truth I was being lazy and not paying attention and assuming the defaults would just work.