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I've created my Joomla! test site on localhost on my home PC, using Linux. I've been trying to back it up and restore it to my XP partition, as I'll have to demo it on an XP machine.

I got CRC errors trying to restore the zip I created using Joomlapack, so I downloaded the native tools and I'm trying to use eXtract. But when I click the browse button to load the zip want to extract, I can't select that zip file. I can click the filename, but it simply opens to show the next sub-folder in the zip. The filename field at the bottom of the dialogue box stays blank.

I've tried typing the full path myself, rather than using browse, but I got a file not found.

I'm using Joomla 1.5.7, Ubuntu 8.10, XP SP2. I'm transferring the zip from Linux to XP via a USB stick.

Is it possible to restore from Linux to XP?

TIA

Yes, the restore is OS independent (with the exception of the Native Tools). If you are getting CRC errors in the zip file, you might want to switch to JPA format. The CRC errors can't be fixed on systems that run php less than 5.2 and/or without the hash module.

The simplest way to restore your site is probably to use kickstart. Load the backup archive and kickstart.php in the root of your target site and point your browser to "http://mysite.com/kickstart.php". Kickstart will extract the archive and give you a link to the installer. When the installer completes, you return to kickstart and there is a second link to do some cleanup (delete /installation, backup archive, kickstart.php).

It took me a while to figure out what you were saying about eXtract. I'll pass that on to Nicholas. :lol:

Dale

KIickstart has extracted my files,but I got this error:

Warning: require_once(C:\xampp\htdocs\libraries\joomla\import.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\installation\includes\framework.php on line 31

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'C:\xampp\htdocs\libraries\joomla\import.php' (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\pear\') in C:\xampp\htdocs\installation\includes\framework.php on line 31

I think where I've gone wrong is that I had problems installing Joomla on Ubuntu,and found instructions on the Ubuntu forum which worked. So on my linux partition I have
/home/user/xampp
/home/user/public-html/

On XP I'm creating in htdocs as normal, so I have
C:/xampp
C:/xampp/htdocs/

Do I need to make corrections in the config file? - joomla loads, but with all the defaults, rather than the settings and data I've created on my test site. The files (images, articles, templates etc) are all there but not being used. I've seen references while searching on this problem to correcting the lines

$mosConfig_absolute_path =
$mosConfig_cachepath =
$mosConfig_live_site =

so they point to the right path, but my config file doesn't contain these lines.

BTW, my XP is still set to double-click, so it must be just something I did! :)

TIA

I do not understand this:

[quote]joomla loads, but with all the defaults, rather than the settings and data I've created on my test site. The files (images, articles, templates etc) are all there but not being used.

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Sorry - I mean that if I go to my test website on localhost using my browser, I get the Joomla default website, just as it appears after a new install.

Right, I think I may try a fresh attempt in the morning. Thanks for your help! :)

Aha, it worked! I think I may have made a stupid mistake after the first restore - instead of deleting the installation folder in Joomla, I may have deleted the instal folder in htdocs. And this time it was OK, once I'd restored htaccess the whole site works.

Thanks for your help. Now I've just got to try and make the template look OK in IE, or find another that looks OK. :)

I'm glad you got it working! About the template - you could just switch browsers. :lol:

Dale

Oh, I always use Fx, but I wanted to make sure it worked in IE as I believe some people actually still use it. :)

All of them in Redmond! :lol: