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Hi,
I followed all instructions to get Joomla working locally under wamp. All looked to be going ok but I get a site temporarily unavailable (fatal error 1) when attempting to open in browser. I've read all comments and suggestions but am still stuck.
I've checked that all wamp services are running and I've tried every combination of username and password (I'd imported my database from my live site).
Could someone please help me. Thanks.

I too now have the dreaded site temporarily unavailable but with error 2.  I have user of root  and no password set in configuration.php per haaris instructions.  I guess its progress from yesterday's messages caused by incomplete ftp of joomla files from webserver.

timtecsa

All is well now. For those who experience the same problem check that you've removed all previous active IIS/PHP/MySQL setups, remove Wamp and then re-install it. Worked a treat. Thanks for all the good advice in this thread.

I followed the instructions. On the pre installation check for Joomla I get:

PHP version >= 4.1.0  Yes 
  - zlib compression support  Available 
  - XML support  Available 
  - MySQL support  Unavailable 
configuration.php  Writeable 
Session save path  Unwriteable 
C:\DOCUME~1\LAWREN~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\php\upload 

For the MySQL support unavailable I tried restarting mySQL That does not help.
For the Session save path, I presume this means that the permissions are wrong. However, I do not find a path corresponding to what is listed.

Do you have any suggestions on how to resolve these issues?

Thanks

Larry

Hi,
I've followed the instructions and thought I was getting somewhere, however I'm now finding that when I try the step 'Open a browser window and go to http://localhost/joomla' I get a message telling me that Apache HTTP Server has encountered a problem and needs to close.  This happens twice and then the  message comes up saying that Internet explorer cannot open the page.  I then have to restart Apache if I want to get the first messages again.

I am using the latest version of Internet Explorer - 7.0.5730.11, My SQL 5.0, Apache web server 2.0.58 and Wamp 5 v 1.6.6.

I'm not an expert, but I am generally reasonably competant.  However I don't know where to go from here!

Thanks,
Rod

Hello,

My sites works fine off http://localhost/joomla and I can view the site fully from my machine.

Other on my network can also, but the artwork and pics are not being displayed.

Any ideas.

Greg

Hi Greg,

Instead of localhost you need to use http:/// or http:///
That way the url of .css and image files will resolve correctly for other users on the network.

Dean

Where do these changes need to be made?  I have the exact same problem, where everything looks great on the local machine, but when I go to it from another machine it does not format correctly.

Sorry, I should have been clearer.

The $mosConfig_live_site variable in configuration.php
$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://';
Or
$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://';

where and are placeholders for
the real ip address or machine name.

Hope that helps.

Dean

Thanks I shall gives this a shot tonight. 

hi,

have followed the instructions and am at step 4. I have remaned the installation folder - but am not sure  / cannot find the Install.PHP - despite a search,

To save me time could someone poit me to the right place,


thanks a lot

Nick

is it the install in phpmyadmin?

Hi N.ick,

It's your Joomla folder's INSTALL.php

Hi Guys and Girls,

First thanks for this great tutorial it almost works great...

Now i have gone crazy about this and looked everywhere and I just can't solve this so here goes:

I installed wamp as well as joomla and it all works fine and i can log in and it is all nice and pretty...

The problem is with TinyMCE menu, it just won't work even when i install a different menu like JCE it still gives me an error from the TinyMCE.js file, this also disables the "save" button and the TinyMCE menu does not show.

This is the error i am getting:

Error: missing ) after argument list
Source File: http://localhost/mambots/editors/tinymc ... mce_src.js
Line: 1930, Column: 1
Source Code:
};

I also got a different error but on the same notioin of some ] missing in line 1984 of some JS file.

I have tried this solution of add this code to the index.php of the head of the template i am using

id ) initEditor(); ?>

Which also did not work, the main issue here that all the forums and locations i have looked all talk about sites online and not using localhost (so the suggestion of changing the live site path to inculed www is not an option), which does not really help my cause 

Moreover, this happens on a fresh install as well just if you though i did not try that too 

Any ideas mates?

Thanks

I was having the EXACT same problem and couldn't find anything on it. I could only deduce that my version of WAMP Server was either screwed up somehow or there was some feature that doesn't work with Joomla! all that well.

Long story short, I had a computer at home running Wamp Server version 1.6.6 and it works perfect. I don't know if this will work for you 100%, but you could give it a shot. Go to: http://sourceforge.net/project/download ... e&10191187 to download wamp server direct or you could also go to: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=116092

After you install the new version of WAMP, you could add in fancy features like register a subdomain at some hosting company and point off the A records in DNS to your local IP address. This way, you could fake out a subdomain and use Absolute URLS such as: Link

If you get your subdomain, say: "mydomain.something.com" pointing to your root wamp server, add the following into your C:\wamp\Apache\httpd.conf right at the bottom (back this file up too in case you make a boo boo)


This way, you can remember your local hosted Joomla website better too! Of course, you could get fancier and do local DNS instead of a hosting provider such as: http://www.dyndns.com or http://www.zoneedit.com
Hey man, be careful with that junk, I'm not exactly an expert with Apache. Local servers are a good place to start messing with files though, at least it's easy to just re-install WAMP Server if you mess it up. Let me know how bumpy your travels are after you try some stuff out.

Hi

im having a bit of problems with this, i downloaded all the joomla files from the web server and put it in the www folder (joomladev) on my local pc and did the procedure to import the database ( i use navicat as i dont have phpmyadmin on the live server) so in navicat i did a SQL dump and saved it as joomladev.sql and the file size is 1.2M  when i try to import it in phpmyadmin on my local machine  i get a error "
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 393216 bytes) in C:\wamp\phpmyadmin\libraries\sqlparser.data.php on line 1075"

i did these steps exactly as per the tutorial, can anyone please let me know what im doing wrong " pulling hair out here"

Hey Alvin, I don't know anything about navicat, but maybe navicat SQL dumps aren't compatable with phpMyAdmin (or maybe not that version).
If you have SSH access to your server, you could probably do a SQL dump through shell like this:

mysqldump -h[hostname] -u[username] -p[password] [DB Name] > ./[DUMP_File_Name].sql
Where the left and right [] square brackets and their contents are to be replaced with the appropriate value. Note that there are no spaces, I thought the space wouldn't matter when I first did it, so I thought I would mention that fact. The "./" before the sql name is the directory obviously.

Also, if WAMP server doesn't work, XAMPP is pretty nice from http://www.apachefriends.org. WAMP Server is nicer in a sense that it's easier to turn on and off PHP features, etc, but XAMPP might be a good thing to try if WAMP server is giving you tons of trouble.

thanks for the reply, i dont think i have shell access but will find out asap and try it,

Hi Alvin,

This looks like a simple case of the import process requiring more memory than the limits currently set within php.ini

Use the wamp icon and menu in the system tray to open the php.ini file - from the config files submenu item.
Look for the memory related settings and double them.
Then stop all services and restart all services and try again.
If the import fails again then simply repeat the above process - redoubling the memory limit.

Hope that helps

Dean

Thanks Dean  i was still getting it so i did a import via locating the file instead of copy and paste of all the text, why it works this way arround i dont know

So now have my database in there and changed my configuration.php with all the relevent info , go to local host and i get"internal server error"

if i do a fresh install of Joomla it works fine no problems, but with my live site on here "internal server error"  thats with config.php changed and double checked and my database imported

First guess is that your edit to configuration.php screwed something.
Most likely you got some whitespace before .
Bad edits can also do this - so can a BOM - byte order marker if you edited a utf-8 file in a crap editor like notepad.

Other possible causes include the .htaccess file if present or a local php.ini file with settings unacceptable to the new server.

Dean

Thanks, Dean....your suggestion fixed my problem...

Regards

OK well one step forward 3 steps back.

I re-downloaded some of the files you mentioned dean, globals.php and replaced the existing one, also i used a default htaccess file from a standard joomla install, and i get to see the front page at least but without my default template.

if i click on a menu item i get a error "firefox does not know how to open this address, because the protocol (c) isn't associated with any program"

Also im now using notepad ++ only.

This seems harder than i initially thought

Has anyone had this problem before ?

First off, GREAT tutorial! I have a site that I designed locally, uploaded to host & then added all my content. I found this article when I was looking up ways to back up my site for "just in case". The instructions were easy to follow & all went smoothly, with the following exceptions:

Internal Server Error when trying to access through localhost - I just removed the .htaccess file, then was able to log into the backend & turn off SEO.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 98304 bytes) in D:\wamp\www\intranet_cko\components\com_comprofiler\plugin\user\plug_cbconnections\cb.connections.php on line 187 - I get this error when trying to log in from the front end.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 24576 bytes) in D:\wamp\www\intranet_cko\includes\Cache\Lite.php on line 275 - And this one I get when trying to edit user's in Community Builder's User Management.

So...I went to Community Builder - Tools - Check Community Builder Database & got this:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 24576 bytes) in D:\wamp\www\intranet_cko\administrator\modules\mod_unread.php on line 26

Any ideas on what could be causing the conflict with Community Builder?

The problem isn't really related to community builder - it is just that this is what Joomla is in the middle of processing when it hits the memory limits set in php.ini

See my answer to 'Alvin c' a few posts above for instructions on how to resolve the issue:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... #msg764784

Hope that helps.

Dean

Dean -

Thanks so much - your suggestion worked perfectly! Sorry, but I didn't realize that my issue was the same as Alvin C's 

No problem at all - as long as you have a working solution I'm happy

Dean

hi

i am Totally New to Joomla and CMMs' databases as well.

However after ffg the instructions  on how to install joomla locally

i get to Step 1 where i have to enter username and password which i do just as instructed.

However when I click Next it says incorrect username and password.

What have I done wrong and how do I correct this.


I got it to work by re-installing wamp and joomla.