dugdesigns

Hey Cory,

Thanks, I did see that and found another post from someone who was having the same issue. When I initially tried that it didn’t work. I did finally get it to work with the manual install, the process wasn’t too simple, but you even state that in the plugin description, “it’s not for a novice”. I did finally get everything up and running though!

Here’s the steps it took to get it to work (well the ones I remember) maybe this will help someone else.

Moving from a localhost (MAC) to online server (in this case, Godaddy). Note Godaddy has old version of MYSQL, so a couple steps below (2 and 5) deal with that.

1.) Ran duplicator locally, saved files.
2.) Unzipped archive file. Opened database.sql with text editor. Ran search for utf8mb4 replaced with utf8. Rezipped archive. (removes errors on install)
3.) FTP’d files (archive and installer) to root directory on server (directory MUST be empty, no copies of wordpress)
4.) Ran installer which Unzipped file but left files in unzipped folder.
5.) Dragged files out into main root folder.
6.) Re-ran installer selecting Manual Install. Ran fine but ran into some errors with formatting of pages. (weird question mark character in content)
7.) Localhost myPHPadmin, exported database – selecting Database Compatibility Mode MySQL40 and checked Add DROP TABLE / VIEW / PROCEDURE / FUNCTION / EVENT
8.) Imported database on web server
9.) Exported pages (WP localhost). Imported pages (WP web server)
10.) Uploaded theme (webserver)
11.) Exported theme settings (WP localhost). Imported settings (WP web server)

There were a lot of steps troubleshooting issues and cleaning things up, but this is the process I can remember finally getting everything to look exactly the way I had it on my local machine.