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7:23 am
September 30, 2010
When I install an xcloner backup to my XAMPP localhost I can't login in to the Administrator portion of Joomla 2.58. This site works fine from localhost. When I try to login to Administrator it goes back to the path localhost/index.php rather than localhost/administrator/index.php and gives the error 404 - Component not found. I have looked at the configuration file and I don't see a path problem and I have searched the forum for clues, but none of the things I find seem to make a difference.
My live site is working fine although it has always had this quirk that you need to click the login button twice to login into the administration side and it will show me as logged in twice. I have poked around the Joomla site for answers, but nobody else seems to have that issue.
I am using XAMPP 3.1.03.1.0 on Windows 7, the hosted site is on Godaddy (whollyscriptture.com)
Can anyone give me some suggestions to get the localhost working?
Thanks,
Ken
12:19 am
January 21, 2013
Hi,
I have the same problem.
To test, I've installed Joomla 2.5.8 and Xcloner 3.2 only on the webserver.
I've downloaded a backup and restored locally, using uniformserver/Windows 7, and I have the same error message.
The front of the Joomla website is fine.
The administrator login page is fine but after putting in the username and password it comes up with the error message
======
An error has occurred.
The requested page cannot be found.
If difficulties persist, please contact the System Administrator of this site and report the error below.
#404 Component not found
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In the apache logs it comes up with trying to access
testxclonerstd/templates/bluestork
I think it should be trying to access
testxclonerstd/administrator/templates/bluestork
Any ideas what might be going wrong?
Thanks
12:32 am
September 30, 2010
I just found a fix on the Joomla site, at least it seems to fix my problem.
On my live site I always had to login twice for the backend to Joomla and I couldn't login to the backend when it was cloned to localhost. I changed the following line in my configuration.php file on both my live server and localhost:
public $live_site ='mydomain.com'; to public $live_site ='';
10:21 am
January 21, 2013
Hi kavery327,
Thanks for that. It has worked for me too.
I didn't get the double login for the backend though.
On my local machine, I changed
public $live_site ='http://localhost/tes.....';# '';
to
public $live_site ='';
Hope that helps other people.
9:53 am
April 15, 2013
Wow Kavery327, what a life saver you are! I can now access the backend, no more 404 error. A thousand thanks from me too.
(When I first tested the restored site on localhost I thought the Admin link worked, but it actually took me to the Admin page of the original backed-up site, so I didn't get the 404. On the restored live site, of course the page is no longer there!)
My thanks to everyone at XCloner too, moving sites from localhost to live servers is so much easier now.
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