# Downloading existing WordPress Site not working on Windows

**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/downloading-existing-wordpress-site-not-working-on-windows/2890
**Category:** Application Support
**Created:** [December 27, 2023, 6:55am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/downloading-existing-wordpress-site-not-working-on-windows/2890 "2023-12-27T06:55:13Z")
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### Author: ![VladimirM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/vladimirm/32/2786_2.png) [@VladimirM](https://community.kinsta.com/u/VladimirM)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2023, 7:45am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/downloading-existing-wordpress-site-not-working-on-windows/2890/3 "2023-12-27T07:45:06Z")

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Hello Rogério, welcome to Kinsta Community! 👋

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having issues with DevKinsta, This is somewhat expected, as DevKinsta was built to work with standard WordPress installs and a lot of it’s functionality when pulling live sites is centered around wp-config.php.

Our developers are looking into a long-term solution for this, however, at the moment, we have no way to automate this process to run the same as with the standard WP installs.

In this post, my colleague Kevin explained the issue and what can be done as a workaround.

> [@Question re bedrock & push to staging](https://community.kinsta.com/t/question-re-bedrock-push-to-staging/1553/3):
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> Thanks for sharing @designlobby ! I think what you are doing right now may be best solution until we have built-in support for Bedrock. Here’s what’s happening: First, DK needs to find a wp-config.php file in whatever the root directory is when using wp-cli. If there is no standardly formatted wp-config.php, the process fails. If you add a wp-config.php in ~/public with the connection credentials, the process will fail during the search and replace because wp-cli won’t be pointing to your …/…

You could try the following:

1. Add wp-config.php in ~/public with the connection credentials (regardless of that not being needed for your Bedrock install)
2. Add a wp-cli.yml file in ~/public that sets the path to your wp directory

The DevKinsta would be then basically used for transferring files and database, as it would require search and replace in both files and database even after the workaround to get it going.

We’re sorry that we don’t have a more straightforward solution at the moment, but we do hope to have one in the future.

Once again, welcome to Kinsta Community!

P.S. In regards to the DNS Probe Finished, it is possible that there’s an error in your hosts file and the way you’re pointing via the file itself. Please recheck it to make sure.

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