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#35132 Kickstart Error - An Unexpected Error Occurred

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 26 April 2021 02:15 CDT

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Hello -- I have recently been restoring a handful of Akeeba backup copies via Kickstart to a variety of hosts (trying to determine which ones to use) and I'm often encountering an issue such as the one listed in the screenshot.  Is there a log file I can read to determine the exact cause and what would be the best ways to resolve this?  Thank you for this wonderful product and I look forward to your advice.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

Towards the top of the kickstart.php file you will see there's a line which tells you to uncomment the next line to turn on debugging. So, find the line that currently reads

//define('KSDEBUG', 1);

and change it to read

define('KSDEBUG', 1);

When you run Kickstart it will generate the file debug.txt in the same folder kickstart.php is currently located in which will tell you what it's doing, step by step.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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