do I need to reinstall Apache for each new joomla site I develop?
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- studio1c
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I create several Joomla sites a month locally and then upload them remotely to go live.
My question is that after I export the database locally it seems like there are still joomla files in the localhost/phpmyadmin area... is this okay, or will I be exporting prior clients info when I do my next joomla template export of the Database?
I guess I need to know the steps to take once I am done zipping the local database and joomla folder (and then ftp and set them up on the remote server), what needs to be done to "start over" with the next Joomla template locally?
Do I need to uninstall/reinstall xampp every time?
Thanks!
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- James Spencer
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You don't need to uninstall anything, or even delete anything. I have around 50+ installs on my localhost. Just have all the Joomla installs in a separate database and different directories on your localhost directory and you can have as many sites as your computer can take
- James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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- studio1c
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- so give me an example... In your server >htdoc foler > you have different folders in there for each different joomla localhost site? Sorry I am not that technically saavy when it comes to this stuff. If you can give me an idea of how to set up the folders that would be super! Thanks!
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- James Spencer
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For example, each RocketLauncher is termed as Joomla_RT_Template-name etc... so I'll have
/htdocs/rtlaunchers/j10/...
/Joomla_RT_Replicant2
/Joomla_RT_MetaMorph
/Joomla_RT_Perihelion
etc... - James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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- studio1c
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I need to export the local database and import it into the remote database. Are there any instructions on how to do this? When I am in the remote database and click import, select the file, it doesn't seem to work like it should.
Any insight into this?
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- Ben Lee
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Are you using phpMyAdmin on both sides, to Export the database, then to import to the new location?
Sometimes the default settings for encoding are different for the export then the import.
Is the new database a completely fresh one?
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- studio1c
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Hi Ben,
What I am doing is I created a template site that will be used over and over, but with some text changes. So this time I will be exporting from a remote phpMyAdmin to another. But also wanted to know how to do it from local to remote. Guess I didn't realize it would be any different. So much to learn, so little time!
Michelle
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- Ben Lee
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- I always export as an sql file and I choose "uncompressed". I always use the full file because most of my sites are really only a few MB's in database size.
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- JEM
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Create the site you want to duplicate.
Get JoomlaPack
www.joomlapack.net/
Install it on that site.
Create a backup
Navigate to the backup
Extract it to a new folder in htdocs
Create a new DB for the new install
Navigate to that folder and run the install
Same procedure for localhost to live site
More notes here:
www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?f=15...dirty&rb_v=viewtopic - Thanks,
jim
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- studio1c
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So I've exported from the one site, (saving one zipped and one not). I made sure to note what Character Set both are: (utf8). I then go to the second site, clicking the import button, browsing to find the file, and this is the message it returns after trying to import:
Error
SQL query:
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-- Database: `elfpartner`
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CREATE DATABASE `elfpartner` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
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