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I see a lot of good information on this forum and needed a question answered. I made the mistake of getting a website with Joomla going without having a local host setup. I now have XAMPP setup and running and was looking for a good tutorial on importing my existing site so that I can test upgrades of Joomla and extensions prior to doing the upgrades live. I am not an expert with servers of any type.

Thanks

Kurt

I now have XAMPP setup and running and was looking for a good tutorial on importing my existing site so that I can test upgrades of Joomla and extensions prior to doing the upgrades live. I am not an expert with servers of any type.

Well

u can use xampp very efficiantly to do what u entend to do

u will have to copy joomla in the htdocs in the xampp say C:\xampp\htdocs

and make a database related to it through phpmyadmin or u can simply make an empty directory in the

C:\xampp\mysql\data directory with the name of the database u want to use for joomla

and then use the explorer to install joomla on ur xampp server ...

beter to install the same vesion and then try upgrade it as u intend to do on ur website.. for testing purposes ..

you can open the address

http://localhost/joomla_dir_name/installation/

and go on ..

if anything is needed please say

Is it possible to just FTP my current website from the server (including database) and install on XAMPP rather than using a new copy? What files need to be changed (e.g. configuration.php)? Sorry of these questions sound stupid but I just want to make sure I don't ruin anything.

Yes sure

I talked about a fresh install cause it takes no time on xampp

u can ftp ur joomla with related database

ftp is very slow here thats why..

and the file u need to change is configuration.php

in joomla root directory

var $dbtype = 'mysql';
var $host = 'localhost';
var $user = 'database user root';
var $password = 'xxxxxxx';
var $db = 'jom_database name';
var $dbprefix = 'jom_';

thanks for sharing

Thank you very much...Exactly what I was looking for