Brett, did you find out about this?
Looks like the server is obscuring the PHP logs for you. We’d need an actual error message.
Hi Manuel,
Nope – this is still an issue for me.
So far the only thing I know is that it happens when I’m cloning large sites, with lots of content in them – so I’m assuming it may be something to do with the database size.
What do you mean by “server is obscuring the PHP logs” & how do I get the logs?
Thanks,
Brett
Yeah, I can imagin this happening with large sites.
How “large” are the sites? I mean how many posts, comments, pages? What’s the file size of the uploads directory for the site?
Maybe you can increase the php_value memory_limit 256M
When I say the server is obscuring the logs, I mean you should be getting some “PHP ran out of memory” or “fatal error” with details about the error, rather than a generic 500 server error.
Where are you hosting the site? Do you have a staging or local dev environment?
The size of that particular site is 255 MB in the uploads directory, there’s over 1000 posts, and even more in CPT’s (custom post types).
Ok I’ve increased the PHP memory, so I’ll see how that goes.
I host with Google Cloud, and I can setup staging / dev environments easily (dont have one setup at the moment)
