I don't think this is an Akeeba problem but I am hoping that with your experience of restoring sites you may be able to point me in the right direction.
I did a back up of the existing site with akeeba and restored it into a sub folder of the same site as the web manager wanted to work on re-arranging the menus and the articles.
it worked fine in the sub folder and is now ready to take over from the existing site.
I moved the new sub folder to be on the same level as the existing public_html folder
I assumed that if I now simply renamed the existing public_html folder (CPanel) and changed the name of the new folder to public_html I should be able to run the altered site from the main domain name (having adjusted the paths in the configuration file) - I have done this before successfully - but not this time - I got an odd error
0 syntax error, unexpected 'array' (T_ARRAY), expecting function (T_FUNCTION) or const (T_CONST)
on the browser page and no errors in error logs behind the scenes.
I have moved the new sub folder back inside the original public_html folder and both work as before.
If you have any suggestions as to how I should proceed so as to get the new site in place of the old I would be most grateful. As it gave me the error above I am really scared of simply restoring it over the old site.
Many thanks,
Richard Ball
