I’m trying to clone a site and cloning is resulting in an error. One of the posts mentioned exporting and then importing a site to a new name. I am now trying that but when I right click on a Local Site, the export option is shown but in light gray and not available to click. Is there something I need to configure to enable it? Any help appreciated.
Hey @dfreker –
A couple of things to verify –
- Is the site turned on? Exporting or cloning the site requires the site to be turned on so that the database can be exported.
- Do you have the specific error that is being mentioned when cloning the site?
- Can you please provide your
local-by-flywheel.logfile? See
“https://local.getflywheel.com/community/t/how-do-i-retrieve-locals-log-file/3720” for instructions on how to do so.
Let us know a little more about this and we should be able to point you in the right direction!
Hi Ben -
Ok, I’m slightly embarassed. :-/ Looks like the site wasn’t turned on. I think we can all this closed. Thank you for your response. I really appreciate it!
Dave
No worries @dfreker – I’m only aware of this little UI/UX bug because I’ve been bitten by it before too! It doesn’t come up often, but it can be a little bit of a head-scratcher when you first see it.
Have a great day!
I just wanted to say that, over 6 years later this thread helped me when I was having the same issue. So at least one other person had the same problem as you (and the UX bug is still there)! Thank you.
Hey @madlon! Could you elaborate on what you ran into here? Was it that the site needed to be turned on to export it, or did you have another issue/error when cloning?
Sure! It was the site needing to be running to be able to export it. I’m sure that there’s a good reason for that to be necessary, but it took stumbling across this old post for me to consider it.
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Ah okay that is actually some intended functionality which we outline in our help doc here as well:
Glad to hear you were able to find what you need and get things working!
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