Joomla Developers: backup/restore utilities and CSS editors?
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- John Klinefelter
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First, I'm using JSAS to develop my latest site, and I really like this approach - it's fast and simple, and I can take my work on the road and continue development off line. I should have been doing this long ago. My question for others who use similar stand alone servers for dev work: What's the easiest way to deploy the site once you're ready to go live?
My other question: What does everyone use for CSS editing? My approach now is trial and error - save the CSS file in my web editor (MS Expression Web) and refresh the site template in my browser. Is there a more intuitive way play around with CSS design?
Thanks.
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- Mark A. Dittenber
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I use TopStyle for CSS editing. I have been using it for quite a few years and never had a need to look at other programs.
As for the first question I beleive it is pretty easy depending on your hosting provider and how much access you have. You should be able to make a backup of your document directory and replicate it on your remote web server. Then you need to make a backup of your database and restore that in your remote server. Of course I haven't done this yet myself. One question that comes to mind is the configuration of the SQL server settings. I am not sure where to edit that yet.
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- Captain Randall
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Anyone heard of a stand alone server for joomla 1.5?
I use JSAS but it says it only supports 1.0
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- Ian Beer
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JSAS only supports J1.0.x if you use its front end.
If, however, you just use JSAS to provide the WAMP framework and unzip J1.5 into its directory structure (w:\www\yoursitename) create the empty database through PHP MyAdmin, and then run the Joomla set up using direct access through your browser, viz "localhost:85/sitename" (in my case) you will have a working J1.5 site. You can't get at it through the JSAS front end.
Using this method also gets around the 5 site limit of JSAS, currently I use JSAS to manage/backup/develop/experiment with 19 sites locally.
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- Bob Ateah
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John Klinefelter wrote:
My other question: What does everyone use for CSS editing? My approach now is trial and error - save the CSS file in my web editor (MS Expression Web) and refresh the site template in my browser. Is there a more intuitive way play around with CSS design?
Thanks.
May I suggest trying the Firefox web browser and installing the Web Developer extension - using the Web Developer/ Edit CSS function can make your CSS life easier.
At least that's what I find.
ALWAYS backup any file that you edit - better safe than sorry.
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- Captain Randall
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Maybe to basic of a question, but I can't find answer.
If I use JSAS to develop locally, and tweak a rockettheme template just the way I like it.
It seems that I have to do the same thing all over again on the hosting server.
Unless, we are supposed to upload the jsas files to the hosted server.
Is this the case? It would make sense that this is what it is used for.
I did say it was basic.
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- Ian Beer
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I develop locally, tarzip the entire thing from the jsas directory (don't include th folder as it will put everything on layer down when it is unzipped), use jsas to load PHP MyAdmin and export the SQL file, ftp the tarzip and use cpanel to unzip it into place, use PHPMyAdmin from CP to create the "copy" empty database then import the SQL dump. All you need do in addition is to adjust the content of configuration.php to reflect any changes in paths and passwords.
Sounds more complicated than it is, there are many here, me included who can give you more precise advice, but that is more or less all there is to it (he said glibly). Works for me. I then retain my local version to try out any subsequent changes/additions before risking them on the live site.
If it just the template that you are modifying, then just re-zip your finished template and upload as normal. - Last Edit: 17 years 2 months ago by Ian Beer.
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