Site Restoration

#40823 Kickstart for Joomla 3

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Environment Information

PHP version

8.0

CMS Type

Joomla!

CMS Version

3.10.12

Backup Tool Version

8.2.3

Kickstart version

8.0.5 Pro

Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 13 June 2024 00:57 CDT

Wednesday, 12 June 2024 15:40 CDT

tffinc

We are moving an old Joomla 3.x website to our new host... hostinger.com. We created the site on their server and then uploaded the *.jpa file and tried to extract it, we keep getting:

An error occurred An unexpected error occurred Start over / Retry

We then created a ZIP file backup, extracted it locally and uploaded all the files to the server and ran the kickstart.php (renamed it to start.php for security). but nothing ever happens.

Are we needing an older version of Kickstart? If yes, can you provide me a link to the old versions. I could not find it on the website.

I was able to use the method above for websites that are Joomla 4, but I have yet to restore a Joomla 3 site. We are using PHP 8.0 (same as current host).

Help please.

Tim Baker

Edited by tffinc on 2024-06-12 15:48 CDT

Wednesday, 12 June 2024 15:42 CDT

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The ticket information has been edited by Tim Baker (tffinc).

Thursday, 13 June 2024 00:57 CDT

nicholas

Kickstart has nothing to do with which CMS you are using (Joomla, WordPress, something else) and its version. It is simply an archive extraction script. Remember, the actual backup restoration script is inside the backup archive.

Edit the kickstart.php file (or however you have renamed it) and find the following lines towards the top of the file:

// Uncomment the following line to enable Kickstart's debug mode
//define('KSDEBUG', 1);

Remove the double slash from the second line so now it reads:

// Uncomment the following line to enable Kickstart's debug mode
define('KSDEBUG', 1);

Run the backup archive extraction again. It will now create a file named debug.txt. Put it in a ZIP file and upload that ZIP file with your next reply.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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