Pulling from WPEngine doesn’t work

[consensusb]

Bug Summary

When attempting to pull from WP Engine I cannot pull any files or Database. It was working properly then all of a sudden this error kept popping up when trying to pull down files and/or the database.

I even added a new SSH Key to my WP Engine profile and the error still is happening.

Environment Info

Describe your environment.

• What Operating System are you using?
  MacOs Monterey
• What versions of site software (Nginx, Apache, PHP, MySQL) is used?
  I am using LocalWP
• What version of Local is installed?
  Version 6.1.8+5621

Supporting info

Please provide your Local Log. See this Community Forum post for instructions on how to do so:

local-lightning.log (268.0 KB)

[consensusb]

Can someone help here?

[ben.turner]

Hey @consensusb

I’ve moved this topic to the “Support” category since the “Bug” category is more for wide-spread, reproducible issues – Let’s see what’s going on and how we can help you!

Taking a look at the Local log, I’m seeing a few lines that make me think that the SSH connection isn’t working as expected:

{"thread":"main","class":"DevKitService","message":"Warning: Identity file %%userDataPath%%/ssh/wpe-connect not accessible: No such file or directory.\n","level":"warn","timestamp":"2022-01-10T21:30:47.548Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"DevKitService","message":"wpe_cli+rsync+pull+lifescisrchpro@lifescisrchpro.ssh.wpengine.net: Permission denied (publickey).\r\n","level":"warn","timestamp":"2022-01-10T21:30:48.206Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"DevKitService","message":"rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]\nrsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3]\n","level":"warn","timestamp":"2022-01-10T21:30:48.208Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"DevKitService","message":"Warning: Identity file %%userDataPath%%/ssh/wpe-connect not accessible: No such file or directory.\n","level":"warn","timestamp":"2022-01-10T21:31:04.029Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"DevKitService","message":"wpe_cli+db+pull+lifescisrchpro@lifescisrchpro.ssh.wpengine.net: Permission denied (publickey).\r\n","level":"warn","timestamp":"2022-01-10T21:31:04.443Z"}

Can you try disconnecting Local from WP Engine and then re-connecting?

If you still have issues, then maybe there’s a problem with the permissions of the .ssh folder? Here’s what my folder looks like, though you might have different files:

[consensusb]

Thanks Ben.

I did a few things and I’m not sure what fixed it.

1. I created a new SSH Key and added the new key to my WP Engine account.
2. Then, I disconnected LocalWP and connected again to WP Engine with a new API key.
3. Then, I adjusted my ssh folder and file permissions.
4. Restarted LocalWP and this seemed to work.

Putting this here in case anyone in the future has the same issue.

[DavidG]

I had the same issue today and simply generated new API creds on WPEngine, disconnected then reconnected to WPEngine in Local with the new creds, and that worked.