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I am trying to create a copy of my Joomla website in a subdomain. The subdomain has been created, and Joomla has been installed. I can FTP to it using CuteFTP and from the DOS command prompt.

I tried using the Site Transfer Wizard but get the message "cURL Error 3 connecting to remote FTP server: Bad URL". The URL I am entering is the URL of my new website. If I enter that in a browser address bar, the default Joomla homepage appears, so I'm pretty sure I've not mis-typed anything.

I tried using kickstart.php. When I click on the Test FTP button, I get the error message "Wrong FTP initial directory - the directory doesn't exist". I have tried all sorts of options in the (S)FTP directory field but cannot get anything to work. I confess I don't actually understand what directory you are asking me to specify there.

Can you help please?

OK, this could be relevant.

The kickstart video says to put the kickstart.php file in public_html. I didn't do that, as I cannot run it from public_html as I have my main domain redirected to a joomla subdirectory of public_html

/public_html/joomla30

I was trying to get this to work with kickstart.php and my backup file in the joomla directory for my new website, which is:

/public_html/glos-ancestry/joomla30

Can kickstart be run from a subdirectory of public_html?

The basic objective in all this is to create an exact copy of my website which I can then modify for a different "brand", i.e. the website will be pretty much identical but with a few changes to text and styling.

Yes, Kickstart can run from a subdirectory. You need to have kickstart.php and your backup archive in the same folder. Then run kickstart.php.

You probably don't need FTP for Kickstart, just use "Direct writes". That normally works, FTP mode is for solving permissions problems.

From your description I think you're OK, but keep in mind that any .htaccess file in public_html will be inherited by sites in subdirectories.

OK, I'll try that, but, just before I do, I need to make sure Kickstart is not going to overwrite my main website.

If I'm running kickstart from, say, /public_html/glos-ancestry/joomla30 and leave the (S)FTP directory blank (as it is by default), where will kickstart restore the files to? I need them to go into /public_html/glos-ancestry/joomla30. It would be potentially catastrophic if they go into /public_html or, worse still, overwrite files in /public_html/joomla30.

Any guidance you can give me?

The extraction will use the current folder as the root of the restored site.

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