I'm trying to migrate a multisite from www.aaaa.com to test.bbbb.com (temp domain alias for test) :
- I make a joomlapack of www.aaaa.com
- Reinstall on test.bbbb.com
- update the configuration.php, config_multisites.php, config_templates with the new values of folders and domains.

The master site works in frontend but i can't acess to the control panel. When i try some login/password on test.bbbb.com i'm always redirected at the login page of the administrator.

Some others informations :
- login works @ frontend
- there is no sef active


Thanks for precious help.

As you could read several times in this forum, JoomlaPack does NOT perform accurated backup.
So this is normal that the restore does not provide you the expected result.

If you are using Symbolic Link or sharing MySQL Table, you have to restore them correctly and not restore physical content.

Concerning the slave site, if you have deployed them into a specific directory that is not instide "/multisites" directory, you can rebuild all the symbolic links with "open/res-save" of slave site. This will rebuild the links in your new environment.

When you restore a DB, you have to check that you really rebuild the links and not create physical table.

If you want that we help you to backup/restore your website, we have a billable support that you can order at
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I know that Joomlapack can't restore symlinks of slave site but the restoration of the files and the database seems to be good.... the sharing mysql table is present with "views" and not "myisam" and the "views" works.

I don't restore the symlinks of my slave site that is not inside "/multisites" but a folder "/slave". But for the moment i just want to acces to the control panel of my master site and i can't login. I'm always redirected to admin login page without error. I see some debug class in the jms code. Is there a way to activate a debug mode in jms (without backend access) ?


Thanks for your precious help.

If you are using a Joomla 1.5.16, 17 or 18, see the Joomla bug tracker that explain some cases where you are always coming back to the "login" form.

Edit the source /libraries/joomla/application/application.php and discard a fix introduced by joomla in 1.5.16
Put the session lines 530 in comment

/*
$session = &JFactory::getSession();

// we fork the session to prevent session fixation issues
$session->fork();
$this->_createSession($session->getId());
*/


See Joomla bug tracker
joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker...racker_item_id=20221

I'm using Joomla 1.5.14. I have try several things but no result... just getting crazy !

I must use your billage support.

Hello,

I am having similar issues after migrating to a Cloud Server.
Sessions are being saved in the Joomla db and to my browser, but I still cannot access the backend. Also, on the front end I cannot access the site with the CB login module, only with the default Joomla login module. This seems strange to me since the back-end does not work.

I have these lines in my application.php file when patched:


If I uninstall the JMS patches, all log-ins work just fine.

One thing might be hampering this, I have yet to move DNS to the new site.
About how I copied:
I used terminal scp and rsync to move my files directly from one server to the other, including all system users, home dirs, mail, etc. I copied all relevant httpd.config, mysql, and php.ini settings.
The server is a RH 5 install.


Please assist!