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I've been using JoomlaCloner to back up six live sites for years now - one of the best Joomla products there is. Now I want to use XCloner with Joomla 1.5 to help with my development. I want to build a site locally and debug things with Zend Studio Eclipse and when done, migrate the site to a production domain.

It would also be handy to be able to grab a remote site, debug it locally and move it back to remote. Can this be done with XCloner ?

I backed up a remote site, grabbed the backup manually using Filezilla, put XCloner and the backup in /var/www of my local server ran XCloner, gave it the MySQL stuff and the site came up ! At least the front page. Nothing else seemed to work. Everything resulted in a file not found error.

Before I spend a lot of time tracking this down, am I barking up the wrong tree or can this sort of thing work ?

Thanks in advance. I did search the forums first and found some sort of similar things but not exactly this.

Leon