Install WordPress
Clone an existing site
Clone from a backup file
You can install and clone a WordPress site onto a fresh or already existing installation.
Install WordPress
To install a fresh copy of WordPress on a new site,
- Enter the website URL
- Enter the FTP details
Note: The Website URL should point to the same folder as the FTP installation folder path. The FTP installation folder path is the path to the folder where you want to install WP as shown below when you login to your FTP client with the FTP credentials provided. - Enter the details of an existing database (See how to Create a new database)
- Create the admin credentials
- You can add the new site to the IWP admin panel by checking the option
- Hit Install WP
COMMON ERROR
404 Not found
SOLUTION
The Website URL and the installation folder path should point to the same directory
To install a fresh copy of WordPress on an existing site,
- Select the site in which you want to install WordPress
- Create the admin credentials
- Hit Install WP
Clone an existing site
To clone an existing site,
- Select the site which you want to clone (the source)
- Select the backup from which you want to create the clone or create a backup now to clone
- You can clone the site to a fresh site or an existing site (the destination)
- To clone to a fresh site,
- Enter the website URL
- Enter the FTP details
- Enter the database details (See how to Create a new database)
- Create the admin credentials
- You can add the new site to the IWP admin panel by checking the option
- Hit Clone
- To clone to an existing site,
- Select the site in which you want to install WordPress
- Create the admin credentials
- Hit Clone
COMMON ERROR
Clone says successful, but didn’t happen.
SOLUTION
Change clone_controller folder permission to 777 and the root folder where you want the site to be extracted also to 777
Clone from a backup file
To clone from a backup file,
- Enter the link to the backup file
- You can clone the site to a fresh site or an existing site
- To clone to a fresh site,
- Enter the website URL
- Enter the FTP details
- Enter the database details (See how to Create a new database)
- Create the admin credentials
- You can add the new site to the IWP admin panel by checking the option
- Hit Clone
- To clone to an existing site,
- Select the site in which you want to install WordPress
- Create the admin credentials
- Hit Clone