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#3666 Kickstart will not start

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 08 September 2010 22:02 CDT

user13712
I'm trying to restore a site on a new server with Kickstart 3.1.3.

[ul]
[li]The server is clean except for Kickstart, language file and the four JPA backup files (had to split due to file size restrictions)[/li]
[li]Using the FTP method as "Directly" causes the following error "Could not open /customers/tamiyabase.co.uk/tamiyabase.co.uk/httpd.www/installation/README.html for writing."[/li]
[li]I have set permissions to 777 for all files and folders on new site. Also tried with 775 and 664. No change.[/li]
[li]Tested with creating a new temp folder, which Kickstart confirms is writeable.
I can not get the "Test FTP connection" to give any response.[/li]
[li]Also my server owner gives me the site root as the FTP absolute path they do not have anythnog else. It's this: "/customers/tamiyabase.co.uk/tamiyabase.co.uk/httpd.www/"[/li][/ul]
So I am stuck. Kickstart goes to stage "5 Extracting" but nothing happens.
Using IE8. IE gives the "Error on page" warning in the lower left corner.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You answered this yourself:
I can not get the "Test FTP connection" to give any response.


This means that you are using wrong connection information, most probably the wrong FTP host name or port. Please consult your host about the correct settings for connecting to your account. If the settings are correct, ask your host if they block "loopback" FTP connections, i.e. a page connecting through FTP to the server it is located in.

If all else fails, you can extract the archive locally and upload all extracted files. Kickstart is a mere unarchiver. The actual restoration script is inside your archive. After you have uploaded all files, just visit the restoration URL: http://www.yoursite.com/installation/index.php.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

user13712
Thank you for the quick reply.
I am using the correct FTP details, the only (?) uncertain thing is the FTP Loopback issue. (I have a question in with my provider)

Anyway, I did the extracting locally and FTP'ed the files to the new site and ran the installer.
Everthing was ok, except that the "Live Site" variable was not changed by the script. (It's used by sh404sef.) When I changed this manuallay in configuration.php, everthing was fine :-)

Thank you for a brilliant piece of software, and good and speedy support!

-Lars
See my test site here: www.TamiyaBase.net

Soon to replace www.TamiyaBase.com

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
The live_site is not changed automatically for a good reason. On servers where it can be correctly guessed you can leave it blank and Joomla! will always guess it at runtime (default Joomla! behaviour). On servers where you need to manually specify the live_site parameter this happens because the auto-detection is impossible. The restoration script (ABI) gives you an option to change the live_site parameter during restoration, though.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• 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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