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#30390 ANGIE Exception - String could not be parsed as XML

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Latest post by sebtombs on Monday, 22 October 2018 09:17 CDT

Monday, 22 October 2018 05:25 CDT

sebtombs

Hi. When restoring from an Akeeba Solo backup, after restoration of the database has finished, I am getting:

Exception — String could not be parsed as XML

#0 /home/newsite/public_html/installation/platform/models/magentoconfiguration.php(66): SimpleXMLElement->__construct('/home/newsite/p...', 0, true)
#1 /home/newsite/public_html/installation/platform/models/magentoconfiguration.php(24): AngieModelMagentoConfiguration->loadFromFile('/home/newsite/p...')
#2 /home/newsite/public_html/installation/framework/model/model.php(158): AngieModelMagentoConfiguration->__construct(Array, Object(AContainer))
#3 /home/newsite/public_html/installation/angie/models/base/setup.php(30): AModel::getAnInstance('Configuration', 'AngieModel', Array, Object(AContainer))
#4 /home/newsite/public_html/installation/framework/model/model.php(158): AngieModelBaseSetup->__construct(Array, Object(AContainer))
#5 /home/newsite/public_html/installation/framework/controller/controller.php(630): AModel::getAnInstance('Setup', 'AngieModel', Array, Object(AContainer))
#6 /home/newsite/public_html/installation/framework/controller/controller.php(921): AController->createModel('Setup', 'AngieModel', Array)
#7 /home/newsite/public_html/installation/framework/controller/controller.php(579): AController->getModel('Setup', 'AngieModel', Array)
#8 /home/newsite/public_html/installation/framework/controller/controller.php(539): AController->getThisModel()
#9 /home/newsite/public_html/installation/framework/controller/controller.php(554): AController->display()
#10 /home/newsite/public_html/installation/framework/controller/controller.php(511): AController->main()
#11 /home/newsite/public_html/installation/framework/dispatcher/dispatcher.php(267): AController->execute('default')turned o
#12 /home/newsite/public_html/installation/framework/application/application.php(182): ADispatcher->dispatch()
#13 /home/newsite/public_html/installation/index.php(76): AApplication->dispatch()
#14 {main}

I have looked at ticket 14060, which suggests that the problem could be due to PHP not having XML support enabled. However, I seem to have libxml present.

The backup was taken from a proprietary shared hosting solution but is being restored to a Virtualmin server.

This may be irrelevant, but the site does not actually use Magento.

Monday, 22 October 2018 06:42 CDT

nicholas

The problem is that you have used the wrong site type when taking the backup. By choosing the Magento site type the restoration script added to the backup is the Magento one. This restoration script is trying to load a configuration file that's specific to Magento and comes in XML format. Since that file does not exist you get an error.

The correct solution is to set up the backup with the site type and ANGIE installer "Bespoke PHP script", take a new backup and restore that new backup. The bespoke PHP site restoration script does not try to load any configuration file, therefore it will work for you.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Monday, 22 October 2018 09:17 CDT

sebtombs

Many apologies, you are quite right - the site type was correct but I'd somehow set the ANGIE Installer to Magento (probably a scroll wheel mistake when changing backup location to a different S3 bucket).

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