Cloning Wordperss to another domains subdomain issue

[Henri Pelkonen]

Hi,

I think there's a bug with Wordpress cloning to another domain.

I tried to clone a Wordpress site with Wordpress toolkit to another domains subdomain to make it visible to internet by selecting existing wordpress subdomain.domain installation from the cloning destinations.

The cloning overrided the the domain main parent wordpress installation and didn't clone to the the subdomain wordpress installation as expected so the main site got destroyed by the proccess!

So the installation is now in vhosts/domain/httpdocs/wordpress and not in vhosts/domain/subdomain.domain/wordpress.

 

[zanuda]

Hello,

I were not able to reproduce such an issue.
I've tried to do this in the following way:
1. I have a subscription with the following configuration:
- domain.tld - with WordPress installation placed at vhosts/domain.tld/httpdocs/
- subdomain.domain.tld
- addondomain.tld - with WordPress installation placed at vhosts/domain.tld/addondomain.tld/
2. I've cloned WP instance from addondomain.tld with destination "existing domain or subdomain subdomain.domain.tld"
As a result I've got three WordPress instances:
- domain.tld - with WordPress installation placed at vhosts/domain.tld/httpdocs/ which were not changed after the clone operation
- subdomain.domain.tld - with a clone of addondomain.tld placed at vhosts/domain.tld/subdomain.domain.tld/
- addondomain.tld - with WordPress installation placed at vhosts/domain.tld/addondomain.tld/
WP instance at domain.tld (vhosts/domain.tld/httpdocs/) were not changed.

Could you please provide more details if you have configuration which differs from my?

 

[Henri Pelkonen]

Hi, and thanks for the reply and your time,

I must test also with new domain and double check my configuration and let's see if the problem recurs or not.

 

[Henri Pelkonen]

Hi!
I found the reason and it was that a subdomain's document root was pointing at the main domain's document root because of a earlier wordpress multisite configuration. My bad and now the sites cloned fine Mayby a visual clue of the to be cloned site's new document root path before confirmation would be helpful for someones forgetting their settings like me?

 

[zanuda]

Thank you for your investigation.
I've forwarded this information to an appropriate person. It looks like a good idea to show source and destination paths, as document root may be customized.