Relationship Migration Error "unable to write to .maintenance file"

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Tagged: Setting up post relationship, Types plugin

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Last updated by Luo Yang 6 years, 6 months ago.

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June 28, 2018 at 10:26 pm #919078

laurenO

I am trying to: Configure a new installation of Types;

Link to a page where the issue can be seen: hidden link

I expected to see: Relationships menu

Instead, I got:Relationships menu disabled due to "legacy relationship types."

Attempted to run migration wizard and received the following technical error:

> Post relationships migration started.
> Couldn't write to the ".maintenance" file.

June 29, 2018 at 9:30 am #919220

Luo Yang

Hello,

The file ".maintenance" is a feature of WordPress core, when you do the relationship migration, it will change your website into maintenance mode.

According to the error message, seems it can not create the file ".maintenance" in the wordpress root folder, please try to change the permission of wordpress root folder to writable, and test again

More help:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions