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Hi,

I had the same problem like described here: https://www.akeebabackup.com/support/site-restoration/19899-restore-to-local-server-404-error-category-not-found.html

and followed the instruction witch mainly solved my problem.

My question now is: Why do I have this problems now where I never had this problem before and after installing it with "ANGIE" I never ran in a problem, so what could possibly have affected that?

Sorry to ask this although I just have to change to configuration file but I'm curious why it is not working as before anymore.

Thank you for your help.

Kind regards

I'm not sure which instruction you mean, there were two issues there.

Turning the SEF settings off indicates that mod_rewrite is not installed or not active on the local server, or that they are not using Apache as the local server, so there is no mod_rewrite. That is not unusual for a new install of a WAMP server. That issue was server related, not restore related.

The $live_site thing is sort of black magic. Most of the time Joomla! can figure out the path on its own. Sometimes it needs you to specify the path in the $live_site variable. As far as I know, there is no set formula for when you have to use $live_site. Once you know what it looks like and how to fix it, it is a pretty easy solution. It's that first time that gets you. Note that if you move that site from local back to the live server, you will have to modify $live_site again.

Hi,

I had both problems to fix as well to make the backup work on my local xampp installation. The thing is that I haven't changed anything on my Xampp for a long time now and I tried an older backup file which installed without problems or that I would have to change the configuration file.

Anyway, this is not a real issue as I could make it work with the mentioned ticket but I was just wondering why that has changed now, as it took me a while to find the solution.

Best regards

Mod_rewrite could be turned off in .htaccess, but that would be very unusual. It would prevent some SEF options from working on the live site as well.

I am not aware of any recent changes to the Akeeba installer that would cause what you are seeing.

These types of post-restore changes are not at all unusual when moving from a live to a local server.