Pages not found after moving site Topic is solved

[ByterBit44]

I copied a working site to a local windows machine for testing and development.
I now get the dreaded:

The requested page can't be found.
An error has occurred while processing your request.

You may not be able to visit this page because of:

an out-of-date bookmark/favourite
a mistyped address

I've played with .htaccess to no avail.

I'm running the site from this url, which may be the cause of the problem?
http://127.0.0.1/xxxxx/public_html/

I also can't log in as admin from here:

http://127.0.0.1/xxxxx/public_html/administrator/
although I do get a badly formed page and text boxes for user and password


Many thanks for any help!

[gws]

Normally the url for local site would be 127.0.0.1/public_html/xxx/
working sites are often https: if you just copied the site then in global config you need to change that.

[ByterBit44]

I moved the public_html folder to the root of this local web sever.
No luck.
I did manage to manually turn on error reporting (I'm learning, but slowly)
I'm given more information I cant yet use, and I'm asked to contact the sys admin.

Sadly, I am the System Administrator :>)

**If difficulties persist, please contact the System Administrator of this site and report the error below.**


404 **Category not found**
C:\wamp\www\public_html\libraries\legacy\error\error.php:200
Call stack
# Function Location
1 () JROOT\libraries\legacy\error\error.php:200
2 JError::raise() JROOT\libraries\legacy\error\error.php:277
3 JError::raiseError() JROOT\libraries\src\MVC\View\CategoryView.php:133
4 Joomla\CMS\MVC\View\CategoryView->commonCategoryDisplay() JROOT\components\com_content\views\category\view.html.php:75
5 ContentViewCategory->display() JROOT\libraries\src\MVC\Controller\BaseController.php:672
6 Joomla\CMS\MVC\Controller\BaseController->display() JROOT\components\com_content\controller.php:118
7 ContentController->display() JROOT\libraries\src\MVC\Controller\BaseController.php:710
8 Joomla\CMS\MVC\Controller\BaseController->execute() JROOT\components\com_content\content.php:43
9 require_once() JROOT\libraries\src\Component\ComponentHelper.php:402
10 Joomla\CMS\Component\ComponentHelper::executeComponent() JROOT\libraries\src\Component\ComponentHelper.php:377
11 Joomla\CMS\Component\ComponentHelper::renderComponent() JROOT\libraries\src\Application\SiteApplication.php:194
12 Joomla\CMS\Application\SiteApplication->dispatch() JROOT\libraries\src\Application\SiteApplication.php:233
13 Joomla\CMS\Application\SiteApplication->doExecute() JROOT\libraries\src\Application\CMSApplication.php:196
14 Joomla\CMS\Application\CMSApplication->execute() JROOT\index.php:49

[toivo]

3 JError::raiseError() JROOT\libraries\src\MVC\View\CategoryView.php:133

These lines in the file libraries/src/MVC/View/CategoryView.php report the error message:

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		if ($parent == false)
		{
			return \JError::raiseError(404, \JText::_('JGLOBAL_CATEGORY_NOT_FOUND'));
		}

In other words, the category that triggers the error does not have a parent category.

Use phpMyAdmin and browse the table _categories. The column 'id' of the first row is 1, both asset_id and parent_id are 0. The column 'parent_id' of the rest of the category rows would be 1, pointing to the ROOT category, unless the website uses a multi-level category structure.

Does the list of categories have more than one category where the column parent_id is 0 or blank?

Go to Content - Categories. There should be button at the top to rebuild the category tree. Click that and see if that fixes the issue.

[cps31]

Verify that every database table in your system is current and accurate. To accomplish this, navigate to the Joomla backend's Components > Joomla! Update > Database menu.

[ManuelVoileux]

I copied a working site to a local windows machine for testing and development....

Hi , you say that you have copied a working site. What operation have you done exactly ?

Transfer a site from an online server file by file with FTP ? then run a local Apache server and launch your site on localhost ?

On a Windows PC, copy files locally , from from one folder to another ? and run a local Apache server and launch your site on localhost ?

In order to save the database, and the files, I would recommend to make a full backup of the working site with Akeeba backup. Then transfer (FTP) this archive file mybackup.jpa to your local PC. Copy the .jpa file , and kickstart.php (from Akeeba as well) in the new root folder.

Launch your local Apache server, and install your site : localhost/new_root_folder/kickstart.php
the syntax may change according the local Apache server that you use. Wamp, Xamp etc.

Then launch your site at the end of the process. If you get a 500 error, fist check the config.php in the root folder, and adjust the "public $cache_path" and "public $tmp_path "

Please excuse if I am stating the obvious.

[ByterBit44]

Thank you all for your kind support!

Toivo:

To your question:

“Does the list of categories have more than one category where the column parent_id is 0 or blank?”

No

To your suggestion :
“Go to Content - Categories. There should be button at the top to rebuild the category tree”

I can’t get there in any event. I can’t get Administration to run.
Inspect/console shows files not being found. The paths to the files do look to be OK. The files are in fact there.


Cps31:

I can’t get Administration to run! I get a badly formed page with text boxes to enter user and PW, but they don’t work.
Again inspect/console shows files not being found. The paths however look OK.

Manuel:

Nothing you could say about Joomla will be obvious to me :>)


I moved the site down from a working system on a Linux box at “HostDime” (not my set up) via FTP.
I then moved the data by producing an SQL Export file from PHPMyAdmin.
I checked the imported data, running on my local Windows MYSQL server, and it looks ok.


In the local browser I get the header of the website, but then:

**The requested page can't be found.**

What may be interesting is that in Inspect /Console I’m told various files can’t be found.

For example

When I try to run
http://127.0.0.1/public_html/index.php

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 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
        
http://127.0.0.1/templates/sk8tboard/css/template.css       

http://127.0.0.1/public_html/administrator/index.php

console shows me:

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GET http://127.0.0.1/media/cms/css/debug.css?7722971… net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)

Manuel, frankly I’m scared of installing Akeeba on the production machine. I’m worried about destabilizing a working system. I’m concerned that I don’t know Joomla well enough to deal with any issues that might happen.
Is this worry unreasonable? As a newbie I get the sense that I might easily break the Joomla system. Have you ever heard of the installation of 3’d party software being a problem?

[gws]

Akeeba is probably the most used 3rd party software on joomla. I have used it for many years without issues and on top of that the support is first rate.

[AMurray]

Ok, your methodology for the site transfer was sound, you copied the files, you export from live site database /import to a local-host new database. Did you update configuration.php to specify the database on localhost? I assume so.

Does the $live_site variable have any value - if so that should be "null" as in $live_site = ''; (that's two single quotes followed by semi-colon).

That's my 2c at the moment for suggestions.

[Webdongle]

https://forumpostassistant.github.io/docs/ please
Also what localhost stack are you running?

[ByterBit44]

Mr. Murray's suggestion of setting the $live_site variable to be "null"
proved to be the key to success here. Thank you!

I now get a fully loading page and site

Doubtless I've got more to learn of Joomla, but at least now I can run and experiment with the site.

Many many thanks to everyone!