dunedude

I see this issue is now marked resolved.

Actually this issue was NEVER resolved. For some reason even the current version of JetBackup only makes null length backup archives of the site in question.

I just gave up on this product. This WP install is pretty “vanilla.” The only difference is that my other sites are hosted in GCP while this one is on a Hostupon server with a CPanel interface. WP is at version 6.1.1. All plugins are at current version. Even if I deactivate all plugins except for JetBackup, the backups still fail.

I got it working but I still don’t understand why.

My directory is structured so that all virtual roots are stored in:
/var/www/<virtual domain folder>/public_html/

Each virtualhost block in the sites-available directory had this directory set to “AllowOveride All”

I tested whether apache was reading the .htaccess file but putting some plain text in the file and then seeing if it would generate a 500 server misconfiguration error. It didn’t so for some reason .htaccess isn’t being read by apache (but only for this virtual host).

I appears that I had to change the base apache2.conf file (/etc/apache2/apache2.conf) to allow overrides to the /var/www directory:

/<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share>
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

Once I did that, the virtual host gave me a 500 error and removing the error line in .htaccess allowed the site to load.
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It has always been my understanding with Apache that virtualhosts, directories, and other blocks inherited settings from their parent unless they were given a different directive. I don’t understand why a VirtualHost–>Directory directive for a folder in /var/www/ would be ignored in this way–and only for a single virtual host.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by dunedude.