Title: PHP stops working after installer.php step 1
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# PHP stops working after installer.php step 1

 *  Resolved [itonstandby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/itonstandby/)
 * (@itonstandby)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-stops-working-after-installerphp-step-1/)
 * I hope this helps someone because it resolves a truly giant security hole with
   certain hosting companies.
 * I recently moved a site from Blue Host to my VPS. All was going well until pressing
   the button on step one of the installer.php. It then downloaded the installer.
   php file. No further progress would happen.
 * Turns out that Blue Host had added a line at the top of the .htaccess file to
   require 3.4 of PHP. This caused PHP to stop working if 3.4 was not present on
   the destination host. My VPS is using 3.3.6.
 * The fix is to remove or comment the line at the top that requires 3.4. But, it
   requires uncompressing the zip file that Duplicator creates, editing the .htaccess
   file, and then re-zipping it. That’s the only way I could get it to work, and
   it did.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/)

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 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-stops-working-after-installerphp-step-1/#post-4504268)
 * Hey itonstandby,
 * Thanks for the feedback! The next version resets the .htaccess file quicker in
   the install process so you shouldn’t have to tweak it manually anymore. If you
   can give the developer version a try it may have your fixes for the issue your
   seeing. The very latest version (0.5.0) can be found by following these instructions:
 *  -> Browse to [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicator/developers/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicator/developers/)
   -
   > Look for the section “Other Versions” -> Click on “Development Version” and
   download the zip plugin file -> Uninstall your current version and install this
   one -> Note: This is a development line version so please test in your sandbox
   first to make sure you have no issues…
 * Cheers~

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## Tags

 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [installer.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installer-php/)
 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)

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 * Last reply from: [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-stops-working-after-installerphp-step-1/#post-4504268)
 * Status: resolved