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 Hi.

I recently changed servers and migrated a bunch of sites from SiteGround to a2 Hosting. All restores were fine, with no issues. However, on the last site that needed to be restored, I am getting Internal Server Error when accessing the back end. This didn't happen with any of the other 5 sites restored.

On this restore I accidentally pressed Remove Installation Folder and DID NOT click on Clean Up. My admin PHP error log is showing a slew of fatal errors of components and plugins trying to access files with the user name of my old account.

Is there a quick fix to this? Or should I just do a fresh restore and over-write everything?

Front end is fine: miraargentina.com

Thanks!

The "Clean up" option would have deleted the /installation folder along with the backup archive and kickstart. All you did was delete the /installation folder. So that is an issue, but not the cause of your 500 error.

The 500 error should leave a message in the site's error log. That is the first thing to check. Let's see if we can find more information about the error.

I tried everything in this article: Common issues on restored sites and how to solve them. https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/troubleshooter/prbasicts.html

It looks like this is the error being thrown when I try to access admin:
File does not exist: /home/user/public_html/500.shtml

Maybe the path of least resistence here is to just re-restore the backup?

SOLVED!

The problem was the .htaccess file in the /administrator folder. It had the old user in it:

AuthUserFile "/home/olduser/public_html/administrator/.htpasswd"
AuthName "Restricted Area"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule \.htpasswd$ - [F,L]

I change olduser to the current user and now it's fine.

Thanks for the help!

Great! I'm glad you got it figured out.