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#42716 Database restoration

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Environment Information

PHP version
8.2
CMS Type
WordPress
CMS Version
6.9.1
Backup Tool Version
9.1.1
Kickstart version
9.0.2

Latest post by UglyEoin on Thursday, 12 February 2026 13:15 CST

UglyEoin

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I've never experienced this before, it's saying an error occured whilst restoring the database.

 

An error occurred while restoring the database. The error message can be found below. Click on the × button at the top right of this dialog message to close it and return to the database restoration page.   AJAX Loading Error
HTTP Status: 404 ()
Internal status: error
XHR ReadyState: 4
Raw server response:
404 Not Found

The resource requested could not be found on this server!

 

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https://snipboard.io/wkW92Z.jpg

 

 

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

Yeah, I know what it is and unless you've run into this before you can't guess what's going on as there's a non-obvious step which links the root cause with the effect.

The 404 is actually a 500 or 502 in disguise. Your server is set up to use custom error pages. Since the custom error pages do not exist, you get a 404 instead. You get to 500 or 502 because your server went TITSUP* while trying to restore the database content.

Most likely you can change the timing setting in the database restoration page to slow down the restoration and avoid this problem.

* TITSUP: Total Inability To Sustain Usable Performance

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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UglyEoin

Not sure why but it worked the second time.  It almost appeared as if I had two versions of Kickstart, so maybe one was stuck in cache.

 

Closing ticket.

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