Can not access site after WP Migrate DB Pro sync (domain redirects)

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I’m using the latest version of Flywheel and the latest version of WP Migrate DB Pro.

I have a remote dev environment (projectname.uniqueurl.com) and a local dev environment (projectname.dev). After I pull the DB from the remote to the local (and I make sure to update the urls), I then change the table_prefix to whatever WP Migrate DB Pro tells me to: my local url is no longer accessible but instead points to a different domain altogether (projectname.com) that haven’t entered into anywhere on the remove dev site.

It makes flywheel unusable once I start working with data.

Has anyone ran into a similar issue or have a better walk around?

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Hi Patrick,

There could be a handful of things causing this:

  1. Caching. If you’re on the Preferred environment, be sure to enable “Dev Mode” in the top-right of the site info in Local to disable the Varnish caching layer
  2. Not every URL/domain is changed. See the examples here for how to change the URL with WP-CLI: https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/search-replace/ … To use WP-CLI with Local, simply right-click on the site in the sidebar and go to “Open Site SSH”
  3. If you’re using Apache in the Custom environment, double-check that there isn’t an .htaccess file causing this
  4. Double-check your custom themes/plugins for any hard-coded URLs
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I’m getting a 500 internal server error after using Migrate DB Pro and can’t even access the admin. Not sure what to do. I did a find and replace in the SQL file to make sure that the urls were correct but still having issues.

Any ideas why the admin would be inaccessible?

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Hi Robert,

I’d check the logs directory in the site directory for clues.

You can also try enabling WP_DEBUG in wp-config.php.

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Thanks! I’m currently plugging my way through this. I don’t think Debug would work (unless it writes to a file) since I can’t access the site.

Update: I removed all plugins and the site loaded. I have a one too hundred many plugins … so who knows what the conflict is. Going to have to go one by one here.

Thanks.

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