UNiTE, Remote CLI, eXtract Wizard

Saturday, 22 January 2011 18:02 CST

user28167

I have a joomla site that user akeeba backup.
I created a localhost on my mac at home using mampro to test it out for new upgrades etc.

I installed fresh joomla install. - worked
I downloaded a zip file of the last backup

so i use kickstart and put in the root folder.I run it and I put the zip file in the same folder. I start kickstart and i keep getting cannot read file readme.html or something along that line. the zip file has R/W permissions too.
So i said fine that doesnt work so i use the extract wizard and it works and puts the zip file contents in my mamppro folder where i want it.
Now when i run localhost, it just hangs at connecting to localhost and doesnt load a page up.not sure where the site is.
not sure what other alternative is there.

Edited by user28167 on 2011-01-22 18:10 CST

Sunday, 23 January 2011 11:21 CST

user28167

never mind fixed it
i created a wrong database in phpadmin which didnt match from original site
all works now

Monday, 24 January 2011 04:04 CST

nicholas

As a sidenote, there are two very common issues with MAMP regarding permissions and database setup.

First, the permissions issue. The exact error message you got was "Can not write to ......../README.html". This is a permissions issue. You create the site's directory on your MAMP Pro server using Finder, therefore the directory is owned by your user. MAMP Pro's Apache runs under the nobody:nogroup user and group. Unless you give 0777 permissions to your site's directory neither Kickstart nor Joomla! will be able to write to it ;) Alternatively, you can configure MAMP Pro's Apache to run as your own user, but that's slightly more difficult and not really recommended.

Another perk of MAMP is that you can't usually use "localhost" as the database host name. You have to use 127.0.0.1. They are not the same. "localhost" tells PHP to use named pipes to access MySQL, which are not available in MAMP. "127.0.0.1" tells it to use TCP/IP networking, which works.

I've been bitten by both of these issue two months ago when I migrated from Linux to the Mac platform.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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