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Hi all,

I'm trying to restore my site using kickstart.php.

The backup files are in the root directory and were moved there from the original directory.

I've tried 3 backup files and they all give the "Could not open webformmailer.php for writing." error.

I've lost my site completely :o so any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Milan

Please try kickstart in ftp mode. That is supposed to work around many of these permissions problems.

Dale

Thank you for your reply.

If I understood well you suggested I run ftp://www.mysite.com/kickstart.php

I did that I got a page with lots of text such as instructions and variables, as well as pop up messages saying "550 Can't change directory to /$scriptname: No such file or directory" and immediately after "421 Too many connections (2) from this IP"

The text on the page is very long but to give an idea what it is it ends with:
$textClick1
$textClose
$textClick2
ENDHTML; } else { $DBname = DBname; $DBhostname = DBhostname; $DBPrefix = DBPrefix; $DBuserName = DBuserName; $DBpassword = DBpassword; $DBfilename = DBfilename; $scriptname=SCRIPTNAME; $textHere1 = '' . Text::_('HTML_HERE') . ''; $textAuto1 = Text::sprintf('HTML_AUTO1', $textHere1); $textAuto2 = Text::_('HTML_AUTO2'); $textAuto3 = Text::_('HTML_AUTO3'); $textAuto4 = Text::_('HTML_AUTO4'); $html = _renderPage('',$html); } function _renderPage($headHTML, $interfaceHTML, $errorHTML = '', $processHTML = '') { $errorStyle = empty($errorHTML) ? 'display : none' : 'display : block'; $processStyle = empty($processHTML) ? 'display : none' : 'display : block'; $interfaceStyle = empty($interfaceHTML) ? 'display : none' : 'display : block'; header('Pragma: NO-CACHE'); header('Cache-Control: disable'); ?>
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"Auto mode" is enabled.

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My apologies, I was not clear enough. Point your browser to "http://www.mysite.com/kickstart.php" and you will see the main kickstart screen. In the middle is a radio button choice of "Write directly to files" or "Use FTP". Select "Use FTP" and fill in the site's ftp details. This mode can usually set the permissions properly for the files as they are extracted and moved to their proper locations.

Dale

I've tried with the ftp setting and another error. This time there was no error description.
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That message is right up there with "Error: keyboard not present. Press any key to continue." :lol: I'll have to ask Nicholas to look at this one.

Dale

Thanks for looking into it for me.

I've done manual system restore so it's not urgent any more.

Thanks for looking at it Nicholas.

Will let you know if I find the solution myself.