myPMPAdmin & Local Website Setup

Hari Thapliyal

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Mar 15, 2016, 4:16:12 AM3/15/16

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Dear Friends,

Background

I have a Joomla and WordPress website on HostGator. For this, I wanted to create a dev env on my machine so followed the instruction of this (http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/issue-mar-2013/item/1110-free-e-book-%E2%80%93-introducing-joomla-30-made-easy) article and installed XAMPP Apache + MariaDB + PHP + Perl. myPHPAdmin Version information: 4.5.1

I also installed joomla3.4 and WordPress 4.4.2.3. My machine already has JDK 8u74.

I took complete website back from Hostgator. Downloaded the backup on my machine. Unzipped file a folder.

My local folder is c:\xampp

Problem.
I want to setup the dev env on my local machine please let me know in "what" directory I should copy my "what" backup files.

FYI I have done restore of wordpress and jommla database. But there is restoring problem for a wordpress database which is 1.5 MB in size after Zipping. Please me know how to handle this sizing issue also.

Thanks in advance.

Warm Regards
Hari

Jerry Stuckle

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Mar 15, 2016, 9:01:59 AM3/15/16

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Your PHP question is?

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Mar 15, 2016, 9:41:20 AM3/15/16

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I have NO experience with these CMSs, and indeed all this stuff in general, so I may be wrong, but - what you're probably looking for is Apache's DocumentRoot. Look for something resembling this in your httpd.conf .
It USED to be /var/www/html in CentOS if I'm not mistaken, no idea what it is now.

Just tryna help, ya know? :)

Oh, and please do everyone a favour and switch to Linux :) It benefits everybody.

Hari Thapliyal

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Mar 15, 2016, 1:55:09 PM3/15/16

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Hello Jerry,

My PHP question is
To create Development Environment in which directory I should put my Joomla and wordpress folders which I have downloaded from my live website.

I have restored wordpress and joomla DB on my local mySQL. But when I put my joomla and wordpress folder into C:\xampp\htdocs then it is not working. Is there any php config issue or my I putting this in wrong folder.

Regards
Hari

Jerry Stuckle

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Mar 15, 2016, 2:41:01 PM3/15/16

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On 3/15/2016 1:55 PM, Hari Thapliyal wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 6:31:59 PM UTC+5:30, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> On 3/15/2016 4:16 AM, Hari Thapliyal wrote:
>>> Dear Friends,
>>>
>>> Background
>>>
>>> I have a Joomla and WordPress website on HostGator. For this, I wanted to create a dev env on my machine so followed the instruction of this (http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/issue-mar-2013/item/1110-free-e-book-%E2%80%93-introducing-joomla-30-made-easy) article and installed XAMPP Apache + MariaDB + PHP + Perl. myPHPAdmin Version information: 4.5.1
>>>
>>> I also installed joomla3.4 and WordPress 4.4.2.3. My machine already has JDK 8u74.
>>>
>>> I took complete website back from Hostgator. Downloaded the backup on my machine. Unzipped file a folder.
>>>
>>> My local folder is c:\xampp
>>>
>>> Problem.
>>> I want to setup the dev env on my local machine please let me know in "what" directory I should copy my "what" backup files.
>>>
>>> FYI I have done restore of wordpress and jommla database. But there is restoring problem for a wordpress database which is 1.5 MB in size after Zipping. Please me know how to handle this sizing issue also.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Warm Regards
>>> Hari
>>>
>>
>> Your PHP question is?
>>

>

> Hello Jerry,
>
> My PHP question is
> To create Development Environment in which directory I should put my Joomla and wordpress folders which I have downloaded from my live website.
>
> I have restored wordpress and joomla DB on my local mySQL. But when I put my joomla and wordpress folder into C:\xampp\htdocs then it is not working. Is there any php config issue or my I putting this in wrong folder.
>
> Regards
> Hari
>

I see nothing to do with PHP in your question. It is all about your
installation and your CMS's.

Arno Welzel

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Mar 16, 2016, 12:06:18 AM3/16/16

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Hari Thapliyal schrieb am 2016-03-15 um 18:55:

[...]

> My PHP question is To create Development Environment in which
> directory I should put my Joomla and wordpress folders which I have
> downloaded from my live website.

Which has nothing to do with PHP itself - it's about how to install
Joomla and WordPress.

> I have restored wordpress and joomla DB on my local mySQL. But when I
> put my joomla and wordpress folder into C:\xampp\htdocs then it is
> not working. Is there any php config issue or my I putting this in
> wrong folder.

"Not working" can be everything.

See the manuals of Joomla and WordPress for further information:

<https://docs.joomla.org/Main_Page>
<https://codex.wordpress.org/>

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