I recently had server issues requiring me to restore from a backup a week or more older because the latest kept breaking. Or appearing to.
(Actually there were no real issues. After wasting a week of my time I found out quite simply the hosting had updated mod security rules and I was not informed. I was still playing football but it was a f cricket match. So much for that learning curve.)
I manually rebuilt missing content using the previous backup which loaded perfectly in a separate folder.
The backups of this, however were being called to the old folder.
Previously if I needed to run a tandem or development site (using separate database) its simply a matter of changing the folder name to the site folder name, after commenting the obsolete/previous one.
Anyhow, I commented the old, renamed the folder of the newly fixed & updated site.
I then restored the absolute path.
After this:
In the new live site ---- Admin Tools, in hot pink and red told me:
Invalid Joomla Configuration settings detected
Invalid or unwritable Joomla log directory. Please fix it inside Joomla Global Configuration before continuing using Admin Tools.
I followed to the Akeeba tutorial for fixing and tmp folder path.
The akeeba zip backup is no longer found at: administrator>components>com_akeeba> backup in lots of 3.
It now appears in tmp folder and only one and then disappears after I have (hopefully successfully) downloaded it.
Also administrator>logs>error.php had appeared in the old folder. (now emptied of the old obsolete site vs)
After I commented this folder I again got an error in the Akeeba Admin Tools to correct the path in Global> config> system>Path to log folder which had reverted to the previous folder.
Things appear normal and the live site appears ok.
My questions:
1/ Is it ok to delete the contents of the old folder: administrator>logs>error.php or should I save them to somewhere else?
2/ How do I set where the zip backup goes to?
3/ How do I set how many zip backups Akeeba/Joomla saves?
Many thanks!
Nev Sagiba
(Actually there were no real issues. After wasting a week of my time I found out quite simply the hosting had updated mod security rules and I was not informed. I was still playing football but it was a f cricket match. So much for that learning curve.)
I manually rebuilt missing content using the previous backup which loaded perfectly in a separate folder.
The backups of this, however were being called to the old folder.
Previously if I needed to run a tandem or development site (using separate database) its simply a matter of changing the folder name to the site folder name, after commenting the obsolete/previous one.
Anyhow, I commented the old, renamed the folder of the newly fixed & updated site.
I then restored the absolute path.
After this:
In the new live site ---- Admin Tools, in hot pink and red told me:
Invalid Joomla Configuration settings detected
Invalid or unwritable Joomla log directory. Please fix it inside Joomla Global Configuration before continuing using Admin Tools.
I followed to the Akeeba tutorial for fixing and tmp folder path.
The akeeba zip backup is no longer found at: administrator>components>com_akeeba> backup in lots of 3.
It now appears in tmp folder and only one and then disappears after I have (hopefully successfully) downloaded it.
Also administrator>logs>error.php had appeared in the old folder. (now emptied of the old obsolete site vs)
After I commented this folder I again got an error in the Akeeba Admin Tools to correct the path in Global> config> system>Path to log folder which had reverted to the previous folder.
Things appear normal and the live site appears ok.
My questions:
1/ Is it ok to delete the contents of the old folder: administrator>logs>error.php or should I save them to somewhere else?
2/ How do I set where the zip backup goes to?
3/ How do I set how many zip backups Akeeba/Joomla saves?
Many thanks!
Nev Sagiba
