I have copied my Magento 2 website from production to a:
Local Environment:
- Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
- Apache 2.4.41
- MySQL Version 15.1 Distrib 10.5.16-MariaDB
- PHP 7.4.30
in the normal way:
- Copied all Magento files to my new webroot
- Created a new database and copied the production database to it
- Adjusted app/etc/env.php and core_config_data accordingly
- Ran the necessary Magento commands
I have a working website, except for one thing: the homepage blocks are not displaying. Header and footer are there but not the custom blocks which should be loaded as they are on the production site.
the cms_index_index.phtml code is good:
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
<head>
<!-- <meta name="google-site-verification" content="" /> -->
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="" />
</head>
<body>
<referenceContainer name="main" htmlTag="div" htmlClass="column main" />
<referenceContainer name="content">
<block class="MagentoFrameworkViewElementTemplate" name="test" template="Magento_Cms::homepage.phtml"></block>
</referenceContainer>
</body>
</page>
But the 6 blocks created in the Magento admin and enhanced by the homepage.phtml in the templates directory do not display.
I tested an intentional error in cms_index_index.xml, flushed, re-compiled, no errors logged. I tried switching themes, saved, and back again. There are no JavaScript errors in the console other than a font not being found and there’s nothing relevant in system.log, exception.log or apache2.log.