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#16347 Akeeba Pro and Kickstart.php pro with windows Azure

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 10 June 2013 09:41 CDT

fede312
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)?1, 2, 3, 4
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? 1, 7, 8
Joomla! version: (2.5)
PHP version: (5.4)
MySQL version: (4.0.3)
Host: (yournewweb.com to mouldingcalculator.azurewebsites.net)
Akeeba Backup version: (Akeeba Pro 3.7.7)
Kickstart version: Kickstart Pro 3.7.0

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Description of my issue:

I'm trying to transfer my site as I usually do it to, but this time to Windows Azure. I've read that you can't do that with the regular Akeeba so I bought the Pro version. But I have been unsuccessful, it does all the process but when is time to put the Microsoft Azure info is not available, Azure have regular SQL instead of MySQL. No matter what information I place in the boxes same error shows up, It can't communicate with the data base.

What I'm I doing wrong? Is there some steps in particular I have to do and I'm missing it?
Or Akeeba won't work with Microsoft Azure.
It does all the steps, it does even populate the ftp, but can't communicate with the Database.

Microsoft Azure has an installation of Joomla 2.5 and it install fine and everything seems to work, but I would be ideal to be able to transfer everything with Akeeba instead of having to do so manually.

Could it be because the version of the Azure site is free on their site azurewebsutes.net?

Please let me know I can give you access to both accounts if required.

Thank you in advance.

Federico Dantoni

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You have to create an Azure server which is using PHP and MySQL. By default Azure server only offer a Microsoft SQL server instance (marketed as Windows Azure SQL – it's the same thing) which is incompatible with 99.9% of Joomla! extensions. Naturally, Akeeba Backup only supports MySQL. We don't support backing up from or restoring to MS SQL server.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

fede312
I've read that!
So would you advice to keep the site on a different server, i.E: hostgator, ipage.
And keep Azure only for the application?

Or change to a different cloud all together

Thank you for such a fast response

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
As far as I can see, it is possible to set up an Azure site with MySQL. I've seen a Microsoft Hellas guy do that live on stage not a long ago (sorry, the last link is in Greek), so I'm very sure that this feature does exist in Azure. There's no need to use a different cloud. That said, both Amazon EC2 and RackSpace CloudSites (and, of course, CloudServers) support MySQL out of the box.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

fede312
Yes it is possible to setup Azure with Joomla with mySql however the memory limit is only 20mb. The site I'm running requires 128mb. So it would be impossible.

I was looking at amazon an option, since the app was made on Microdoft Access everyone figure that Microsoft would be the way to go, but obviously we were mistaken.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
I think you are confusing different things in your mind and coming to all sorts of wrong conclusions.

Azure offers two MySQL STORAGE tiers: 20Mb of MySQL STORAGE SPACE is free of charge and 1Gb is $9.99 per month (I'm looking at these screenshots: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/php/common-tasks/create-mysql-database/).

On the other hand the PHP MEMORY LIMIT you want is 128Mb.

And then you talk about an app made of MS Access. At this point you completely lost me.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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