Crawling not working

[leonstafford]

If there’s nothing showing in the Export Log, then hopefully server logs will provide some information.

Are you using any load balancer/security later in AWS? That could be blocking requests.

I give a lot of possible troubleshooting steps here:

Failed during "Crawling initial file list", please consult the Help tab for where to get assistance

With WP2Static version 6.6.7 (from next release, plugin is renamed to Static HTML Output), this is a common (and rather unhelpful) error message to receive: Failed during “Crawling initial file list”, please consult the Help tab for where to get assistance With the upcoming release, some of the causes of this issue are mitigated and steps to troubleshoot it are made easier, but here’s my general advice on how to troubleshoot this after having helped countless users over the years (and 2 more…