joomla! migration

Question

I have a Joomla! installation on a remote site and I want to run it locally. I'm running Joomla! locally on a Mac through a standard MAMP installation:

• Joomla 1.5.12
• PHP 5.2.6
• MySQL 5.0.41
• Apache 2.0.59
• OS X 10.5.8

I've added a configuration file to the local Joomla! directory with all the correct local settings, database name, database user-name, database password etc. etc. I've tried a lot of different settings.

I've also recreated the remote database locally, ensuring everything copied correctly.

I followed a few different sets of instructions with roughly the same steps on how to do the migration. I've also tried increasing the allocated PHP memory.

All of the above has not worked for me; at best I get bits of text from the site rendered in the browser. Other times I get SQL errors.

What I want is for an already set up remote Joomla! installation to run on my own local machine.

There's a log dump here.

Does anyone have any advice as to how to get this working, it'd be very much appreciated? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Migrating a site should ;o) be a relatively simple process.

Take a dump of the database, take all of the webfiles.

Place the webfiles on the server

Load the database

Reconfigure the configuration file.

Looking at the dump though, it looks like you might have some whitespace at the top of your configuration.php file. Try removing that.

Answer 2

You may use akeeba backup for setting up remote site to your localhost.

you have to follow these steps:

--> Go to live site's backend and install akeeba backup (Must be compitible with your Joomla Version).

--> Got to "Configurations" of akeeba and set backup format to .zip

--> Now create backup form "Backup Now".

--> Go to "Administer backup Files" and download backup to your system.

--> Now Extract .zip file to your locahost directory.

--> Open Browser and navigate to the folder(in which backup was extracted).

--> You will see a restoration installer and then follow the steps.

Hope Your site will gets restored successfully.