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Latest post by petekuhn on Saturday, 07 June 2025 17:34 CDT
Restoring a backup to a test site. Everything works fine, except the SMTP parameters are not restored. The ones from the backup file are not set, and the old ones are.
I do a complete wipe of the hierarchy before the backup, but I don't delete the database tables.
When you are restoring a backup the SMTP parameters which were present at backup time in your site's configuration.php file will be used, just like any other parameter in configuration.php which is not or cannot be explicitly modified in the Akeeba Backup Restoration Script's (BRS) user interface. These Joomla Global Configuration settings are applied to your site when you click on the Next button in the Site Setup page. This tells BRS to create a new configuration.php file, merging your changes –as specified in the user interface– with any options from the configuration.php file which was detected and read when BRS was initially launched. Should it not be possible to create the updated configuration.php file, e.g. due to file permissions issues, you are explicitly warned about it in the next and last page of BRS, and given the updated contents of configuration.php so you can apply them yourself.
It sounds like you got to a situation where the updated configuration.php file cannot be created, but did not notice the message at the very last page of the restoration.
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Thanks, Nicholas. Very clear explanation. Makes sense.
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