Restore Akeeba file with XAMPP

[ABSCC]

I have restored our live site (Joomla 2.5.27, PHP 5.3.26, Apache 2.2.5, MySQL 5.1.73-cll) to my localhost using an Akeeba backup file and Kickstart. No problems occurred.

My local set up is XAMPP on Win8.1 using port 8080 for Apache, PHP 5.5.11,
Apache 2.4.9 (Win32), MySQL 5.6.16.

When I try to run the home page using http://localhost:8080/ABSTest/ I get the navigation content displayed and the following errors:

An error has occurred.
The requested page cannot be found.

and

#404 Article not found

But there is nothing in the error logs.

I have no idea what might be wrong and any ideas would be much appreciated.

[Webdongle]

Why not http://localhost/yourjoomlafolder
Where yourjoomlafolder is the name of the folder in c:\xampp\htdocs where you run kickstart.php on the jpa file.

[ABSCC]

Port 80 is already in use by IIS so I have to use a different port. 8080 works fine - I had a Joomla 2.5.24 installation running without problems but I deleted it to install the current copy of the site.

[Webdongle]

.htaccess active with 'Rewrite on' but '# RewriteBase /' not uncommented and not with path edited ?

[ABSCC]

We use htaccess.txt not .htaccess (which is empty) and I've uncommented RewriteBase.

[Webdongle]

.htaccess is read therefore being empty it does not contain rules ... txt.htaccess has no effect. Please see
http://docs.joomla.org/Enabling_Search_ ... EF%29_URLs

[ABSCC]

Thank you - I will take a look at that.

[ABSCC]

I have tried everything in the documents you referenced and still no luck.

I have checked the live site again and Search Engine Friendly URLs is set to Yes and Use URL rewriting is set to No. I seem to recall that if SEF was set to No then all the CSS was ignored which is why it is set to Yes (but my memory may be at fault).

The .htaccess file on the live site is empty. As Use URL rewriting is set to No there was no need to rename the text version.

Have you any further suggestions or should I just delete my local installation and start again?

[Webdongle]

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The .htaccess file on the live site is empty. As Use URL rewriting is set to No there was no need to rename the text version.
...

But it's localhost that you are having problems with not the live site. Therefore the live site rewrite settings are not relevant. Your localhost server settings may need rewrite setup correctly. Until you have ruled that out it is difficult to know where your mistake is.

Do you have the live site url defined(hard coded) anywhere ?

[ABSCC]

Sorry about the dealy in replying - I had to put this on hold for a while.

The URL for the live site is hard-coded into configuration.php.

[Webdongle]

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The URL for the live site is hard-coded into configuration.php.

Then that is the problem.

[ABSCC]

Success! I set everything up to handle rewrites in httpd.conf, copied htaccess.txt into .htaccess and uncommented RewriteBase then, finally, set $live_site to have no value. After changing $live_site I now have a working copy of the website on localhost.

The next job is to write myself a document detailing all the steps I have to take following a restore using Kickstart so I don't have to go through this all over again!

Many thanks to everyone who has tried to help, especially to Webdongle who pointed me in the right direction.

[Webdongle]

If you don't give a value to $live_site then it will avoid the problem in the first place. That value is rarely needed to be defined.

[pioneer_1]

May I ask if you are using a Joomla SEO Component like SH404SEF?

[peterparker]

i think XAmp error, try install it againt