Having some issues getting the backup from my live site to restore on my computer. I looked through the video tutorials and the forums and still having problems. I have a site on godaddy and I have backed it up and downloaded it, I go through all of the kickstart steps on my computer and everything says it installs fine, but I cannot figure out how to get localhost in the address bar to bring up anything. When I do the kickstart steps, when I get to the part where I enter the sever and password and all of that, what do I put in there? Would it be the same as the info on godaddy? Also in WAMP, I am coying the backup and kickstart.php into the www>joolma folder. Is that correct as well? Probably an easy step that I am missing, but it's taken all night trying this. :)
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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:30 CST
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:00 CST
user8162
Wednesday, 27 January 2010 02:39 CST
dlb
The user and password information is for the database connection. Normally you need to create the MySQL database manually before you restore. The exception is when you enter root on that screen and give JoomlaPack the root MySQL password. Then it has sufficient rights to create the database on it's own.
If you're getting the installer code, you're in the right location. You would get a 404 error if you were not.
If you're getting the installer code, you're in the right location. You would get a 404 error if you were not.
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 11:59 CST
user8162
Still seem to be doing something wrong. I watched the tutorial on how to restore and just to be sure, I uninstalled WAMP and started over. I re-installed WAMP and installed Joomla inside of www>joomla folder. While installing I entered:
Host Name: localhost
User Name: root
Password:
Database Name: joomla
I after finishing the install, Joomla worked fine. I then id as the video shows and deleted all the files inside of the installation folder. Then copied and pasted the backup zip and kickstart.php into the folder. I ran the kickstart.php and when I got to the step where you enter the host name and all, I entered the same as I did above. After deleting the install directory, everything should work from there. But when I go to localhost/joomla/administrator/ all I get is a message that says:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, admin@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Not sure where I am going wrong?
Host Name: localhost
User Name: root
Password:
Database Name: joomla
I after finishing the install, Joomla worked fine. I then id as the video shows and deleted all the files inside of the installation folder. Then copied and pasted the backup zip and kickstart.php into the folder. I ran the kickstart.php and when I got to the step where you enter the host name and all, I entered the same as I did above. After deleting the install directory, everything should work from there. But when I go to localhost/joomla/administrator/ all I get is a message that says:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, admin@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Not sure where I am going wrong?
Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:30 CST
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
This is a tell-tale sign of .htaccess trouble. Counter-intuitively, the .htaccess is not located in /administrator, but in the site's root.
There are three things you have to watch for in .htaccess and one server setting:
0. WAMPserver comes with mod_rewrite turned off by default. Left click on its icon, go to Apache, modules and make sure that mod_rewrite is checked.
1. Make sure the FollowSymlinks directive is commented out (with a hash sign in front of it)
2. If your live server required you to put special directives - usually AddHandler lines - to your .htaccess in order to activate PHP5, please comment them out
3. If you have an active RewriteBase line (no hash sign in front of it) in your .htaccess file, please edit it in order to reflect the directory you restored your site in. For example, restoring to c:\wamp\www\foobar means that this line should read:
That's all. It should work after that ;)
There are three things you have to watch for in .htaccess and one server setting:
0. WAMPserver comes with mod_rewrite turned off by default. Left click on its icon, go to Apache, modules and make sure that mod_rewrite is checked.
1. Make sure the FollowSymlinks directive is commented out (with a hash sign in front of it)
2. If your live server required you to put special directives - usually AddHandler lines - to your .htaccess in order to activate PHP5, please comment them out
3. If you have an active RewriteBase line (no hash sign in front of it) in your .htaccess file, please edit it in order to reflect the directory you restored your site in. For example, restoring to c:\wamp\www\foobar means that this line should read:
RewriteBase /foobar
That's all. It should work after that ;)
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