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#21170 Old Kickstart version

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 07 October 2014 01:35 CDT

Monday, 06 October 2014 16:05 CDT

x2tech
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Description of my issue:

Nicholas,

I'm looking for older versions of Kickstart program. I only find version 4.0.0 and this won't work to allow me to run it on PHP 5.2.

I know it is outdated, but I'm working on migrating a Joomla 1.5 site to 3.X and still need to run it on a server with 5.2 on the server. Are the older version of Kickstart no longer available? I only see 4.0.0 available as a download for Kickstart.

Help!

Monday, 06 October 2014 17:45 CDT

dlb
I could not find any version except the 4.0.0 on this site either. I did find an old 3.6.0 version on the JoomlaCode site at http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/jpack/frs/. I don't have any information on what the php requirements would be for that version.

You could also use the eXtract Wizard from our downloads page to extract the archive locally and FTP the files to your server.


Dale L. Brackin
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Tuesday, 07 October 2014 01:35 CDT

nicholas
The old versions of Kickstart (pre-4.0) which were compatible with older versions of PHP have been pulled down as they contain a security vulnerability which was fixed in 4.0. Unfortunately we can't provide a fix for the old versions as we can no longer reliably test them.

When Kickstart is not available for your server you can still restore your site. First use Akeeba eXtract Wizard to extract the JPA/JPS/ZIP backup archive locally. Then you can upload the extracted files to your host. After the upload is complete, point your browser to http://www.example.com/installation/index.php where http://www.example.com is the URL to your site.

Remember, Kickstart is an archive extraction tool. Kickstart IS NOT a site restoration tool. The site restoration script is included inside the backup archive itself in the installation directory. That's why we've always been saying that Kickstart is an optional tool.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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