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#8935 Erorr restoring backup

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Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 17 July 2011 02:14 CDT

Saturday, 16 July 2011 16:09 CDT

user13820
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? yes
Have I searched the forum before posting? yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? yes
Joomla! version: 1.5.23
PHP version: 5.2.17
MySQL version: 5.1.52
Host: Hostgator
Akeeba Backup version: latest

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Description of my issue:can not go with the restoration getting this error:
No database definitions were found or no database was selected.
I have done some of your instructions from:
https://www.akeebabackup.com/documentation/troubleshooter/abisession.html
when I change permissions I get error 500
please help
Avi

Saturday, 16 July 2011 16:13 CDT

nicholas
Hello Avi,

There is a workaround, albeit a slightly kludgy one. As soon as Kickstart is done extracting the archive and before you click on the "Run the Installer" button, please create an empty text file (e.g. use Notepad on Windows) called "storagedata.dat" and upload it to the "installation" directory of your site. Give that file 0777 permissions and then go back to Kickstart and click on "Run the Installer". If the installer still complains, try hitting the Next button anyway to get to the next page (Restore DB). You might need to click the button two times to get to that page, but eventually it should just work.

Please let me know if this workaround works for you!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Saturday, 16 July 2011 16:35 CDT

user13820
Give that file 0777 permissions to "installation" file or storagedata.dat ??

Saturday, 16 July 2011 16:48 CDT

nicholas
OK, reality check :D "installation" is a directory, not a file and "storagedata.dat" is a file, not a directory. Therefore "give that file 0777 permissions" of course means "give the storagedata.dat file 0777 permissions". After all, the issue you had was caused by giving 0775 or 0777 permissions to the "installation" directory. I wouldn't ask you to do the same thing that forced you to ask for my help in the first place ;)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Saturday, 16 July 2011 16:50 CDT

user13820
OK, I managed to go to the end but now after cleaning I get on front and backside: JError Unable to load Database Driver:

any idea?
thanks

Saturday, 16 July 2011 16:53 CDT

nicholas
At the end of the installation it most likely told you that the configuration.php file wasn't written to disk. In this case you have to copy the new contents (shown in the huge gray box), edit your configuration.php and replace its contents with those you copied from the gray box.

Please also take a look at this documentation page.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Saturday, 16 July 2011 17:01 CDT

user13820
sorry, but I did not see any big gray box and it did not tell me anything about configuration.php file wasn't written to disk
http://derberliton.de/

Saturday, 16 July 2011 17:31 CDT

user13820
OK! I managed to config the file myself..THANKS!
Avi
http://derberliton.de/

Sunday, 17 July 2011 02:14 CDT

nicholas
You're welcome!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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