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#17267 set $session_handler and $cache_handler using UNiTE

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 02 September 2013 09:44 CDT

Thursday, 29 August 2013 10:37 CDT

user13612
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 2.5.14
PHP version: 5.3.2
MySQL version: 5.1.70
Host: CloudVPS
Akeeba Backup version: 3.7.10

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Description of my issue:

Is it possible to set the $session_handler and $cache_handler using UNiTE using the XML script for the configuration.php? On our live site we use caching and on the restored site we don't.

Thanks, Ebo Eppenga

Thursday, 29 August 2013 15:57 CDT

nicholas
It is not possible, but there is a workaround. You can create a ZIP file with the fine tuned configuration.php and use the extra files feature of UNiTE to restore it on top of your site. This is what I am using for restoring our site's backup on the testing server. I am currently on vacation. If you do not understand what I mean let me know and I'll give you a better example as soon as I am in front of my computer. I don't have access to my customised restoration on the iPad I am using to type this reply.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Monday, 02 September 2013 02:27 CDT

user13612
Dear Nicholas,

Of course, didn't think of that, later I thought I could also do it in a bit of shell scripting as well, but this solution I prefer.

Kind regards,

Ebo Eppenga
Marketing
Exact

Monday, 02 September 2013 03:42 CDT

user13612
Dear Nicholas,

There is one important issue with the ZIP files in the <extrafiles>, once the ZIPs are processed they are deleted by UNiTE. Tried to switch it off with <delete>0</delete> or <deletePackage>0</deletePackage> but that doesn't work.

Kind regards,

Ebo Eppenga
Marketing
Exact

Monday, 02 September 2013 09:44 CDT

nicholas
Hm, yes, that is correct. These files are always deleted. You could solve that with a little of shell scripting, e.g.
#!/bin/sh
cp inbox/configuration_template.zip inbox/configuration.zip
php ./unite.php


Where configuration.zip is the name of the ZIP file you want to use.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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