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Description of my issue:

I am ready to go live with a Joomla 1.7 installation. I have been working on it in a directory mysite.com/jupgrade, referenced through a subdomain j17.mysite.com. This morning I took a full backup of j17.mysite.com (as well as a full backup of mysite.com). I wanted to restore the j17 site to a different directory, mysite.com/dev, subdomain=dev.mysite.com.

I tried the Site Transfer Wizard, which appeared to work correctly, and also tried running the latest version of kickstart.php on dev.mysite.com (with the fresh backup of the j17 site loaded in the home directory. This also appeared to work correctly.

However, after completing the Site Migration Wizard AND after retrying with kickstart directly, the front end appeared to work properly (did not run many tests, but it looked good). However when trying to login to the back end a hard PHP error was thrown:
Call to a member function login() on a non-object in
/home1/fearrin1/public_html/dev/administrator/components/com_login/admin.login.php on line 64

I have used kickstart in the past to restore a working Joomla 1.5 site to the dev site, and it worked perfectly.

Any ideas? I can not proceed with my upgrade until this is solved.

Thanks.

I was going to do that but could not find the log file(s). Where is it? No warnings while backup was taking place - I watched it. Are there logs by kickstart? That went without errors as well.

Thanks. Will try again and let you know.

That's MUCH better. The only glitch I saw was after editing and saving an article, the "saved" notification bar was overwritten with something. See attached.

I should mention that before I ran kickstart again, I had deleted all files and directories from /dev. I did NOT, however, clear the old database before rerunning. Could that be the problem?

That did it.

Thanks for your quick attention to my problem. I hope you have a great vacation!

Jim