Copying Joomla 1.5.23 Live Site to my localhost machine

[mds2907]

Hi All,

I have copied a live joomla website(1.5.23) to make some changes in the design.
I am using Xampp version v3.2.1 and Php version 5.4.19

I have zipped the live folder and database and copied to my local machine. Later I created a datbase with the same name and imported the copied database file and the import was successful.

I have extracted the live website folder and copied inside htdocs under a folder named"joomla15"

Based on some articles I have made some chnages to configuration.php file by changing the database username, passsword and the temp and log folder path settings. Also I have chnaged the default ftphost settings as well.

When try to open the path (http:localhost//joomla15), m getting a totally blank page.
When i try to open (http:localhost//joomla15/administrator) i am getting an error as below

"You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected."

I have tried with the settings that have been mentioned on the web, but still strugling to get the site running.

Please guide on this. Your help is appreciated.

Thanks,
mds2907

[imanickam]

What happens when you simply type localhost in your browser's address bar?

Also, try typing localhost/joomla15 in the browser's address bar and see what happens.

Note:
Be informed that last version of Joomla! 1.5 is 1.5.26 with a hot fix after that. It is suggested that you upgrade your Joomla! site to 1.5.26 and then apply the hot fix. Do the upgrade in a different environment than the live site and after successful testing you could do the same thing on the live site.

[mds2907]

What happens when you simply type localhost in your browser's address bar?

Also, try typing localhost/joomla15 in the browser's address bar and see what happens.

When i type only localhost, it takes me to default site which i have configured
When i type localhost/joomla15, then i get blank page

[hvdmeer]

Use an older version of XAMPP because joomla 1.5 doesn't work on PHP 5.4
https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_1.5_won% ... on_PHP_5.4

Also you're not using the lastest version of Joomla 1.5. You do know version 1.5 is very old and End Of Life, Joomla 2.5 is also EOL and the current version is 3.4?

[mds2907]

Hi hvdmeer,

Thanks for the reply. Yes I am migrating my old joomla 1.5 site to joomla 3.x. So the first step what I am following is copying the existing joomla 1.5 site to my localhost machine. So I copied all the folders and database files onto my system. I have imported database sucessfully by creating a database on my local machine. Now I am trying to configure the joomla1.5 site so that I can migrate to 3.x

But I am having issues where the only a balnk screen is getting displayed.

Is there any other way where I can bring up the existing site on my localhost machine?

Please do advice.

[mds2907]

Hi All,

In attempt of trying to set up the joomla 1.5.23 site on my localhost machine, I have made few changes to my configuration.php file where i have set the var $error_reporting = '32767'; and now I n getting a page where I have many statemnets which are like below

"Strict Standards: Non-static method JLoader::import() should not be called statically in C:\xampp\htdocs\myjoomla1523\libraries\loader.php on line 187"

and single Fatal Error as below
"Fatal error: Class 'JoomFishManager' not found in C:\xampp\htdocs\myjoomla1523\plugins\system\jfrouter.php on line 429"

I am new to php and I have no idea of how can i resolve this.

Based on some search I hava tried to few things as below

1.deleted all .htaccess files from the joomla1523 directory
2. Disable manually mod-translate from phpMyAdmin

But still i am not able to get the site running nor able to access admin

Please do advice on this

Thanks,
mds2907

[mds2907]

Hey Guys,

Please help on this issue as I am struggling with this for a very long time. I am trying with evry possible solution on the web that is available, I am facing difficulty as I am new to joomla

Or else is there any other for running the site locally on my machine?

Appreciate your help.

Thanks,
mds2907

[imanickam]

The problem is that Joomla! 1.5 is not supported to run on PHP 5.4 (https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_1.5_won' ... on_PHP_5.4).

Probably you could review the post http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f ... 6#p3021765 and subsequent posts in that thread.

You could also search for similar topics/posts.

Note: You should really plan for upgrading your site to the latest version of Joomla! (i.e., 3.3.6 or 3.4.0). Joomla! 1.5 and 2.5 are no longer supported.

[mds2907]

Hi,

I have resolved the error. I have removed the joomfish module manually.Also i chnaged the publised column value to 0 under jos_modules table in the datbase. After this my site was loading but without menus and images. I am working on it

But here I would like to mention that, one more issue has got me stuck. When I type the http://localhost/joomla15/administrator , I am not getting the login screen, instead I am seeing a a page where my administrator directory folders are being displayed.

I have checked the admin folder of the existing site and there is no module folder and I am not able to find mod_login in the copied joomla folder from server.

Please do advice on this as I have to bring a live server copy to my localhost in order to migrate from current version to new version

[imanickam]

Is there a file named index.php in the folder \administrator ?

[mds2907]

Is there a file named index.php in the folder \administrator ?

No there is no index.php, but there are two pages index2.php and index3.php and index.php.org file. Anything that i have replace or copy?


Thanks,
mds2907

[imanickam]

The files present should be index.php, index2.php, and index3.php.

It is not clear as to what the file index.php.org you have. May be it stands for the original index.php file.

On the production site, what files do you have in the folder \administrator?

[mds2907]

Hi,

After checking the admin folder in production site I found only below files/folders

index2.php
index3.php
index.php.orig file
help folder

There are no other files/folders present inside

Thanks,
mds2907

[imanickam]

Can you log into the production site's back-end? Is so, what is the URL you are typing for accessing the site's back-end?

[mds2907]

Hi imanickam,

Thanks for help and guidance on this thread. I am glad to inform you that I have resolved the administrator login issue.

I have replaced the administrator completely with the production site administrator folder on my localhost machine. Then typed localhost://joomla15/administrator and I am able to login now in the backend :-)

Cheers !!!
mds2907