{"id":954,"date":"2017-01-25T14:42:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T19:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/?p=954"},"modified":"2017-08-21T10:11:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T14:11:40","slug":"having-a-hard-time-restoring-your-site-using-xcloner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/2017\/01\/25\/having-a-hard-time-restoring-your-site-using-xcloner\/","title":{"rendered":"Having a hard time restoring your site using XCloner?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day to all ~
\np.s :<\/strong> This only apply if you are already running “WordFence” on your WordPress website,,, and then ,,, …,,, \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/p>\n

~ maybe you have to update first WordFence plugin on a old wordpress installation!? Was like 11 updates on this thing!@ will dig this!<\/strong><\/p>\n

We had a serious problem with restoring a crashed website that was using the plugin “Wordfence”<\/strong>. We are using the “XCloner”<\/strong> pluging for many years now to restore all our wordpress websites. After noticing that the customer website was not loading anymore, We started to investigate the problem(s)?><\/p>\n

The reason was caused by Wordfence itself!?<\/p>\n

Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required<\/strong>
\n,,… … when opening the website!@<\/p>\n

Restoration was not possible anymore using XCloner because of the..,,,
\nfamous Internal 500 error!<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is what..,,, We did to make this work…,<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Upload your XCloner backup in your root<\/li>\n
  2. Upload the restoration files XCloner.php and TAR.php in the same folder<\/li>\n
  3. On your server create a fresh database & user with all previledge<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This is the tricky part!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

    Open a browser to point to this page<\/strong><\/p>\n

    http:\/\/www.yourdomain.xxx\/XCloner.php<\/p>\n

    This will start the restoration page of XCloner plugin…<\/em><\/p>\n

    Okay here are the steps<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Select the database file to restore<\/li>\n
    2. Enter your database credential and password<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \"\"<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Start the first step of the restoration of XCloner<\/li>\n
      2. DO NOT PRESS IMPORT DATABASE YET!
        \n& DONT CLOSE THE BROWSER WINDOW@ \ud83d\ude09
        \n<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n
      3. Log into your FTP server and locate those files > user.ini<\/strong> and .htaccess<\/strong><\/li>\n
      4. user.ini<\/strong> file must be empty of all contents!!! do not delete delete the file,,,..\u00a0 just save it!!!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
        ; Wordfence WAF\r\nauto_prepend_file = '\/public_html\/wordfence-waf.php'\r\n; END Wordfence WAF<\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n
        # Wordfence WAF\r\n<IfModule mod_php5.c>\r\n\tphp_value auto_prepend_file '\/public_html\/wordfence-waf.php'<\/span>\r\n<\/IfModule>\r\n<\/Files><\/code><\/pre>\n
        .htaccess<\/strong> you need to remove anything related to Wordfence<\/pre>\n
        Re-upload both files using your FTP Client<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
        Now go back to your XCloner restoration webpage..,,,<\/p>\n
        “Please click here to continue with database import…”<\/strong><\/p>\n
        *** MAKE SURE THAT USERS.INI file is empty before the next step!
        \nRefresh your ftp folder!<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong>
        \nAlso make sure<\/strong> that there is nothing related to Wordfence in your .htaccess<\/span><\/p>\n
        Click Continue to trigger the database restoration!<\/p>\n
        \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n
        After the restoration you will be able to connect to your wordpress dashboard and un-install Wordfence #@!%f%^<\/p>\n
        You should make now a fresh backup of your wordpress site.<\/p>\n
        ~ Up to you if you wish to re-install WordFence!<\/em><\/p>\n
        Here you go!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
        Good day to all ~ p.s : This only apply if you are already running “WordFence” on your WordPress website,,, and then ,,, …,,, \ud83d\ude09 ~ maybe you have to update first WordFence plugin on a old wordpress installation!? Was like 11 updates on this thing!@ will dig this! We had a serious problem with … Continue reading Having a hard time restoring your site using XCloner?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easy-admin.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}