Unable to import DEMO data

Good evening,
I’m getting the error “Error accessing file for download: cURL error 28: Connection timeout after 10001 ms” when I try to download demo data. I have read through the posts and the documentation. I have –

– Increased the timeout
– Increased the memory
– Attempted to install the demo data manually
– Assigned a unique IP address to my server instance on my hosting provider (Dreamhost).
– Used Cloudflare to proxy all the traffic
– Installed WP manually instead of using the canned installation offered by Dreamhost.

When a tracert is run from the server instance to kriesi.at, it is successful

traceroute to kriesi.at (85.13.136.225), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 ip-173-236-240-1.dreamhost.com (173.236.240.1) 4.671 ms 4.587 ms
4.543 ms
2 * * *
3 iad1-bdr-2.sd.dreamhost.com (208.113.156.194) 0.272 ms 0.261 ms
0.253 ms
4 be5698.rcr51.b037327-0.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.122.62.253)
0.955 ms 0.910 ms 0.870 ms
5 be3562.ccr41.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.24.233) 0.836 ms be3563.ccr42.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.25.225) 1.015 ms be5698.rcr51.b037327-0.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.122.62.253) 1.200 ms
6 be3562.ccr41.iad02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.24.233) 0.967 ms
0.845 ms *
7 * 154.54.171.65 (154.54.171.65) 1.260 ms 1.417 ms
8 be8073.ccr41.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.170.70) 99.869 ms
99.687 ms be4188.ccr42.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.122) 92.931 ms
9 be3627.ccr41.par01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.198) 90.022 ms be4188.ccr42.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.122) 93.143 ms be3472.ccr32.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.46.33) 92.276 ms
10 be3471.ccr31.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.40.153) 93.198 ms be3685.ccr42.par01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.60.173) 88.854 ms be3393.ccr51.lhr01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.47.142) 92.670 ms
11 be3393.ccr51.lhr01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.47.142) 96.670 ms
96.982 ms be3684.ccr41.par01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.60.169) 93.381 ms
12 be3684.ccr41.par01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.60.169) 93.238 ms be4975.ccr41.fra05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.63.69) 93.308 ms be3685.ccr42.par01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.60.173) 103.244 ms
13 be6038.rcr71.nue01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.72.94) 96.653 ms be4975.ccr41.fra05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.63.69) 93.637 ms be5516.ccr21.muc03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.62.122) 97.980 ms
14 be6038.rcr71.nue01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.72.94) 101.870 ms
101.535 ms be5516.ccr21.muc03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.62.122) 97.954 ms
15 dd16312.kasserver.com (85.13.136.225) 100.462 ms be6037.rcr71.nue01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.72.90) 105.649 ms be6036.rcr71.drs01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.72.85) 109.273 ms

However, when I throw the curl command at kriesi.at, it fails

curl -I https://kriesi.at/
curl: (28) Failed to connect to kriesi.at port 443 after 130772 ms:
Connection timed out

Is it possible that your server is blocking the IP address or Dreamhost in general?

Downloading the demo data does work on a WP instance that is NOT on my hosting provider; however, exporting the theme file consistently results in a TXT file, even after I add the entry define( ‘AVIA_GENERATE_DEMO_PHP_FILE’, true ) to the wp-config.php file. I will note a slight difference in the TXT file when the entry is present. The text inside the TXT starts with “$options = “. I tried renaming the file as a PHP, but the import stated the file was invalid.