Joomla woes
Been a while since I posted on my blog but I’m finally getting back into twitter after an absence.
Over the last few months I’ve been busy designing the new Pride London website, we opted for a Joomla install as a CMS and all was well in the development stages but now i need to migrate the site to its new server I’m having problems after problems.
I used JoomlaPack, a module that helps back up and migrate Joomla installations, I knew something was probably going to go wrong as i had to hack some of the scripts to work on my server, but i chose to ignore these and continue with the installation.
Once I finally got the back up to work I download the rather bloaty 104MB back up folder and uploaded it to the new server. Then it took me a few attempts to get the kickstart.php script to work due to various permissions and locations of the back up files.
Finally it kicked off, but it installed all the folders and files as a root user with no write or execute permissions, so the problems get worse. All the files we there and i could see the site once i browsed to its location but none of the plugins worked, including the menu!
Now i had a bunch of files that don’t work an i can’t get rid of without the hosts intervention. So now i’m waiting the weekend for the host to get to work Monday and hopefully sort out my problem. I can over install due to the rights of the existing files 
.
Though this was going to be easy but sadly not. So my next attempt is going to be a manual transfer so I hope this goes easier!