WP Staging File Permission error:

Resolved dkokin
(@dkokin)

10 years, 1 month ago

I’m getting these to errors after activation. I checked the ‘wp-staging’ folder and neither file is there. Any suggestions?? Thank you in advance.

WP Staging File Permission error: /var/www/vhosts/……../wp-content/uploads/wp-staging/clone_details.json is not write and/or readable.
Check if the file /var/www/vhosts/111minnagallery.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/wp-staging/clone_details.json exists! File permissions should be chmod 644 or 777.

AND

WP Staging File Permission error: /var/www/vhosts/……../wp-content/uploads/wp-staging/remaining_files.json is not write and/or readable .
Check if the file /var/www/vhosts/111minnagallery.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/wp-staging/remaining_files.json exists! File permissions should be chmod 644 or 777.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/

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pinkyandzbrain
(@pinkyandzbrain)

10 years, 1 month ago

Exact same issue here…

Plugin Author Rene Hermenau
(@renehermi)

10 years, 1 month ago

Make sure that your upload folder is writeable. Giving it file permissions 755 should fix it. The user www-data should also be able to write into this folder.

Plugin Author Rene Hermenau
(@renehermi)

10 years, 1 month ago

You can also try to create these files manually in the path:
./wp-content/uploads/wp-staging/ but the file permissions must be set nevertheless

Thread Starter dkokin
(@dkokin)

10 years, 1 month ago

Thank you. Looks like creating the files “worked” however many of the links in the staged site just point to the original site or give me 404s. Is this related, or does this have to do with the missing permalinks?

Plugin Author Rene Hermenau
(@renehermi)

10 years, 1 month ago

This is likely related to hardcoded links in your wordpress installation and can not be bypassed by wp-staging.

Also do not forget to disable all caches on the staging site.

Thread Starter dkokin
(@dkokin)

10 years, 1 month ago

It’s not just the hard coded links. For instance all my WP Events Calendar posts are giving me the same error.

pinkyandzbrain
(@pinkyandzbrain)

10 years, 1 month ago

Creating the files manually seems to have worked for me also. I will setup and test tonight. Thanks, Alan

pinkyandzbrain
(@pinkyandzbrain)

10 years, 1 month ago

Creating the clone_details.json and the remaining_files.json files manually got me past the first issue but now I get a

Fatal Error: This should not happen but is most often caused by other plugins. Try first the option “Optimizer” in WP Staging->Settings and try again. If this does not help, enable wordpress debug mode to find out which plugin is causing this: 500 Internal Server Error

I have checked that the wp-staging
folder file permissions are chmod 777. The files inside the folder have file permissions chmod 644.

I have turned WP-Staging Debug Mode on but no log file is created.

Thanks in advance,

Alan

Thread Starter dkokin
(@dkokin)

10 years, 1 month ago

I’m having a hard time putting a lot of faith in this plugin.

tli004
(@tli004)

10 years, 1 month ago

Hi I am also receiving the exact same error, I was able to install this plugin just fine on another WP site however. I figured it might be a plugin issue but I have tried deactivating all other plugins as well and still receiving the error.

Plugin Author Rene Hermenau
(@renehermi)

10 years, 1 month ago

@pinkyandzbrain @tli004

Activate the Optimizer for all plugins in wp staging options.
If that does not help enable WordPress debug mode and install the query monitor plugin. You likely have php errors in one of your other plugins which is breaking the copy process. This must be resolved first.

@dkokin What wp event calendar plugin you are using? There are dozens. I like to replicate that issue.

whistlerdan
(@whistlerdan)

10 years ago

I’m having the same issue. I’ve set the permission of the WP-staging folder to 777 and it still doesn’t work.

What do you guys all mean by “creating the files”? How do you do that?

I also tried it on a local test site with no plugins activated and I still got the issue so it doesn’t appear to be plugin clash related.