davidsandbrand

Hi @corylamleorg ,

I actually just found out some info that I think explains it, and it may (not sure!) be a bug…

So, I deleted the entire site and recreated it. Duplicator works.

But I realized I forgot to put a cert on the site, so I deleted the site and recreated it with a cert. Duplicator doesn’t work.

Then I deleted it and recreated it with no cert. Duplicator works again. Then I did the restore, and then added the cert.

But here’s my thinking as to why…

The site is in a docker container, and is running nginx.

Then, the server is running nginx-proxy which is where all encryption is terminated. Then the proxy speaks to the site with http traffic – even if the site has a cert at the proxy layer.

And so my thinking is that the installer.php script is grabbing the ssl status, and using that URL to fetch the archive. maybe? And since that traffic is actually happening inside the nginx instance, and there is no support for ssl, it fails. Probably getting a 404 error.

Is that possible? Is the installer.php script actually doing something through the http/https protocol, instead of just locally with the files?

The way I did it let me do this restore, but it won’t let me do it again, or move the site back, or anything like that. So my workaround is not even sustainable.

FYI, the server is running https://easyengine.io/ – in case you want to test this yourself. There are some good diagrams on https://easyengine.io/handbook/internal/request-cycle that show the path of the traffic, if I haven’t explained it well.