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Joomla! version: 2.5.1
PHP version: 5.2.17
MySQL version: 5.0.77
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Akeeba Backup version: 3.5.0

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Description of my issue:


Hi Nicholas,

I'm currently trying to copy a site from within a subdirectory to the root folder.
I created a backup, then downloaded the recent version of Kickstart Pro (3.5.1), uploaded Kickstart and the backup file to the root directory and ran Kickstart. I got stuck at the DB restoration page. No error message, but clicking "forward" I was always sent back to the restoration page. Eventually I deleted the installation directory. Then Kickstart went on to the "go to frontend/backend" page, and the site seemed to work, but had some errors, and eventually I found that it was still accessing the old DB (I *did* enter the new DB data).
The only thing I did different than the many times I used Kickstart before, was choosing mysqli instead of mysql, because that's what is selected in Joomla.

Anyway, I thought I'd start from scratch, and do a new backup. But backup now fails: "Output directory unwritable" - I did not change anything on the original site. So sth. must have changed by Kickstart. I checked folder permissions and folder location (now set to [DEFAULT_OUTPUT]) and cannot find a problem, all 755.

What now?
Thank you!

Regards, Ralf.

Now I tried to run kickstart 3.4.1, and get this error:
Could not open .../httpdocs/index.php for writing.
Deleting index.php, the next file cannot be overwritten etc.

So apparently I need to have some access right changed on the server. Which settings are needed? (And why did it work before (when I used backup/kickstart to copy the same site from one subdirectory (on the same hosting) to another))?

I read and tried what's written in the first doc, directory and ftp checks fine, but still "Could not upload installation/README.html".
I rang the host, does not see a problem. Only using 1GB out of 10. No issue with access rights.

Next, I'm trying the manual upload ...

Still, why doesn't backup work anymore on the original site ...
I guessed memory full, but host says no. (Also said he'll ring me again later ...)

For the backup, I now changed the directory from the usual one to /tmp, and had to set it to 777, but now it works.

Yes, tried FTP: "I read and tried what's written in the first doc, directory and ftp checks fine, but still "Could not upload installation/README.html"."

(and now I'm uploading manually to the directory that I "cannot write to", with filezilla.)

wait, I now changed the ftp directory to the subdirectoy, and it extracts ...

The installer now gives me a warning:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/tmp/sess_j3cpv133spd849kenjaatk3b03, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.ch/httpdocs/test/installation/includes/storage.php on line 221