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Akeeba Kickstart 5.x User's Guide

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Akeeba Ltd

Copyright © 2008-2024 Akeeba Ltd

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the appendix entitled "The GNU Free Documentation License".

January 2024

Abstract

This book covers the use of the Akeeba Kickstart web-based archive extraction software. It includes reference for its interface, as well as instructions for automating its operation.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Overview
Why do we need Kickstart, anyway?
What Kickstart is and what it's not
2. Before using Kickstart
Getting Kickstart
Requirements
3. Using Kickstart
Preparing for the extraction
Kickstart's interface
Initial dialogue
The setup page
4. Advanced features
Import from a URL
Import from Amazon S3
Importing archives from third party storage services (Dropbox, OneDrive, ...)
Using from the CLI
Securing the Professional version
5. Troubleshooting
Akeeba Kickstart won't run at all or throws a Parse Error
I get PHP Warning, Notice or Deprecated errors when trying to run Akeeba Kickstart
Akeeba Kickstart starts but it does not list my archive files
Akeeba Kickstart starts, but can't extract the archive, throws an AJAX Error, Invalid Archive Header or other error
Troubleshooting on a local server
Troubleshooting on a live server
I am getting AJAX errors with some weird 403, 500, 502 or 503 code
Extraction stuck on Windows
A. GNU Free Documentation License
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