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How to fix the issue of “Too many levels of symbolic links” in Plesk?

When we try to clone the WordPress instance, we may sometimes see the below error message:

The symbolic link file (db.php) in the error is a component of a WP plugin, such as query-monitor.

# ls -lah /var/www/vhosts/example.com/wp-content/db.php
..
db.php -> /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/query-monitor/wp-content/db.php
..

The cause behind the error may be the WordPress Toolkit bug EXTWPTOOLK-9401: WordPress Toolkit cannot process the symbolic link created by the plugin “query-monitor”.

Steps to fix the issue

We can follow the below steps to fix the issue:

• Sign in to Plesk.
• Go to Domains >> example.com > WordPress Toolkit >> Plugins.
• On the original website, disable the problematic WordPress plugin before cloning.
• Re-enable the plugin on the destination (newly cloned) website after making a copy of the original.

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Conclusion

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