New dev environment / move entire site

andkav

Hi, I built an Automad 1.2.5 site last year on a Mac with XAMPP. I successfully deployed it to my hosting by simply uploading the contents of the “automad-master” directory to the hosting root. (www.binero.se, has perfomance issues when logged in - see other post).

Now I have bought a new Mac and I can't get Automad 1.2.5 to run on it with XAMPP.

So far I have tried:

Copy files from the old Mac to new Mac (tried both copy files and zipping).
Download files from the hosting root directory (tried both binary DL and .zip DL)

This is the error message I get on my new Mac:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function Automad\Core\imagecreatefromjpeg() in /opt/lampp/htdocs/public_html/automad/core/image.php:299 Stack trace: #0 /opt/lampp/htdocs/public_html/automad/core/image.php(389): Automad\Core\Image->createImage() #1 /opt/lampp/htdocs/public_html/automad/core/image.php(188): Automad\Core\Image->verifyCachedImage() #2 /opt/lampp/htdocs/public_html/automad/core/view.php(459): Automad\Core\Image->__construct('/opt/lampp/htdo...', 1440, false, false) #3 /opt/lampp/htdocs/public_html/automad/core/view.php(650): Automad\Core\View->processFileSnippet('/pages/projects...', Array, '\n\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t...', '/opt/lampp/htdo...') #4 [internal function]: Automad\Core\View->Automad\Core{closure}(Array) #5 /opt/lampp/htdocs/public_html/automad/core/view.php(521): preg_replace_callback('/((?P<var>(@\{\...', Object(Closure), '\n\t\t<div class="...') #6 /opt/lampp/htdocs/public_html/automad/core/view.php(739): Automad\Core\View->interpret('\n\t\t<div class="...', '/opt/lampp/htdo...' in /opt/lampp/htdocs/public_html/automad/core/image.php on line 299

I also tried installing Automad 1.3.2 on the new Mac from scratch that works without issues.

Help appreciated! Thanks

mad

andkav Hi, so as far as I understand, version 1.3.2 runs fine on your new Mac? The error message let’s me think that PHP is missing some of its core functions or was compiled without them. But that shouldn’t be the case with XAMPP.

You could try as a first step to upgrade your old site to version 1.3.2 using the command line. So in your site’s installation directory run

php automad/console update

andkav

Thanks! I tried updating in my local XAMPP environment - this is the command line result:

php automad/console update
Automad Console version 1.2.5
Automad version 1.2.5
Update branch is default
Updating to version 1.2.6

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function Automad\System\zip_open() in /Users/me/.bitnami/stackman/machines/xampp/volumes/root/htdocs/public_html/automad/system/update.php:396
Stack trace:
#0 /Users/me/.bitnami/stackman/machines/xampp/volumes/root/htdocs/public_html/automad/system/update.php(309): Automad\System\Update::unpack('/Users/me…’, Array)
#1 /Users/me/.bitnami/stackman/machines/xampp/volumes/root/htdocs/public_html/automad/cli/update.php(55): Automad\System\Update::run()
#2 /Users/me/.bitnami/stackman/machines/xampp/volumes/root/htdocs/public_html/automad/console(73): require('/Users/me…’)
#3 {main}
thrown in /Users/me/.bitnami/stackman/machines/xampp/volumes/root/htdocs/public_html/automad/system/update.php on line 396

mad

andkav I think there is something wrong with your XAMPP installation. Like the other error message you’ve got before, it is missing some PHP core functions. Do you have any other PHP version installed on your Mac which might interfere with XAMPP on the CLI?

However, it’s hard to tell the real issue here. You can also try to manually replace the automad directory with the newest version to update.

andkav

Yes, something seems wrong with XAMPP. But on MacOs XAMPP is run as a Virtual Machine - could the issue be related to the PHP version, Apache or something?

mad

andkav In the past you had the option to install also the classic XAMPP without running in a VM. Check out the download page. I think you can still download it.

andkav

Ok, will try that. Thanks

andkav

I have now setup a new Ubuntu Server with a LAMP stack. I copied the entire root from my live site to "/var/www/html/automad"

And I rand the following commands:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/automad/
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/automad/

The result is that the start page of the site loads - but no links work. "automad/dashboard" does not work either.

Error message:

Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.

Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) Server at 192.168.8.142 Port 80

mad

andkav Hi, I know it can be quite frustrating to configure a webserver. The issue here I guess is that apparently rewriting is not working on your Apache. You can quickly try to temporarily rename the .htaccess file in the root of the site. That should enable a fallback without pretty URLs.
Then you have to check if all required Apache modules are loaded and working correctly. In general that’s actually only mod_rewrite here.

andkav

Thanks! It works now.