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I've really messed up. How to backup my database?
« on: July 06, 2006, 11:34:49 AM »
Being fairly new to Joomla I've completely messed up and can't acces the admin login screen  Embarrassed

http://www.advancedmindskills.com/administrator

I'm not sure how to fix it, if I can't I at least want to save what content I have and re-install joomla. Will this work?
 
Any advice in how to do this would be really appreciated  Cry
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Re: I've really messed up. How to backup my database?
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2006, 02:23:03 PM »
Did you delete the Installation folder in the site root?

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« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2006, 05:07:06 AM »
I tried installing the SEO patch from http://www.joomlatwork.com/ and something has messed up. Will I be able to save my content if uninstall Joomla, reinstall and use the same database I already have?
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Re: I've really messed up. How to backup my database?
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2006, 05:15:01 AM »
Access to http://www.advancedmindskills.com/administrator send to http://www.advancedmindskills.com/administrator/installation/index.php

Do you have a FTP access to your files ? Like David Goodwin wrote, delete the Installation files in your site root and/or administrator folder. Look at the content of my administrator folder, there is no installation folder. You have to delete yours.
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« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2006, 06:13:39 AM »
I deleted the installation folder just after I installed but I accidently ftp'd things into the root folder and other folders by accident so I think some of the original files were overwritten by the stuff I downloaded from http://www.joomlatwork.com/.

They have a "redo" patch but it isn't helping when I ftp these "original" files that they provide that supposedly undoes whatever I've done.

Attached is a screenshot of my root folder content. Would it be possible for someone to send me all the original files or would I be best to uninstall and start over hoping there is no problem restoring content from the database?
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« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2006, 06:31:48 AM »
I see that you have an old .htaccess (21/05/2006) and a recent htaccess.txt (03/07/2006). Try to remove (and keep elsewhere) the .htaccess.

And delete the INSTALL.php file.
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« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2006, 07:24:51 AM »
Thanks but no difference..

Do you know if I reinstall joomla, I'll still have the content in the database to use?
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« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2006, 08:19:56 AM »
Sounds like you may need to re-install Joomla. Backing up the databse will bring along many of the bugs that you are experiencing now.

I've had to re-install Joomla before. I just simply made text documents (.txt)  for each piece of content and then rebuilt it again after re-installing Joomla. I had to re-install all my photos also. There may be a more efficient way, but I don't know it.

Hope that helps.

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« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2006, 08:48:28 AM »
Hi Dave,

Thanks for letting me know.

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