# Not able to lauch anything after importing gateway 8.0.10 from Linux to windows server fails

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 31, 2022, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-able-to-lauch-anything-after-importing-gateway-8-0-10-from-linux-to-windows-server-fails/55542 "2022-01-31T07:32:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![hewking32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@hewking32](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hewking32)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-able-to-lauch-anything-after-importing-gateway-8-0-10-from-linux-to-windows-server-fails/55542/1 "2022-01-31T07:32:45Z")

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hi All  
I am looking again for ideas how to further troubleshoot serious issue which i had several month ago and i am looking into this again to solve it properly. This issue was bypassed by creating fresh gateway and manually configuring it which works now but is very time consuming and obviously error prone.

I am using version 8.0.10 and when i exported gateway from linux and imported to the windows environment after downloading and installing designer laucher and client laucher i am not able to lauch anything ☹  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/7/b/7b99890420e188b06d712508a60fde4e8d7fedcc.png)

Any ideas which logs to check or how to troubleshoot it further? I hope the fact that the gateway came from linux server is not relevant just coicidence…

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-able-to-lauch-anything-after-importing-gateway-8-0-10-from-linux-to-windows-server-fails/55542/2 "2022-01-31T13:49:13Z")

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The `ignition.conf` file has folder names in platform format. Since it also has important settings needed for a restore to function, it is included in a gateway backup. When moving to a different operating system, one must edit the `ignition.conf` file after restore to use the new platform’s file system information. Then restart the service.

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**Author:** ![hewking32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@hewking32](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hewking32)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/not-able-to-lauch-anything-after-importing-gateway-8-0-10-from-linux-to-windows-server-fails/55542/3 "2022-02-01T17:06:23Z")

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Many thanks for your help again but my issue turned out to be different to what i originally thought. After transferring the gateway I had to modify gateway xml file to set "forced secure redirect" to false and then restart ignition service. After that i am able to launch designer and client again.

the procedure was described in the post below:

> [@Ignition Designer Launcher Connection Exception Issue](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-designer-launcher-connection-exception-issue/29776/6):
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> This may or may not be the issue, but in some cases it’s possible to have a designer stuck in this situation if your gateway does not have SSL enabled but Force Secure Redirect is enabled. If your gateway does not have SSL enabled (using an http url instead of https) navigate to the Config \> Web Server and see if Force Secure Redirect is enabled. It will look like: If you are in this state, you can either enable SSL temporarily so you can disable Force Secure Redirect before …

I am very glad that every day i keep learning something new thanks to this forum 🙂