How to backup and upload your joomla website

Joomla 1.5 is suitable for building almost any website. It is absolutely free (GNU / GPL license) and provides unmet features for creating dynamic web content .In fact joomla is so easy to use that it is even a single individual who completely newbie will able to use in a short time learning for building a web site. But some of them probably will face a problem when try to upload their first joomla website to hosting. Below are simple tutorial that you could easily apply to back up and upload your joomla website to your hosting.

Backup Your Joomla Website

Backing up the content of your Joomla website is critical. You will probably be able to recreate your template if you lose it. One of non-commercial which comes to mind is the JoomlaPack component. This creates a zipped file of all the content in your website which you can just download. This also makes it easier for you to take a backup whenever you need.

Installing the component

The installation of the component is no different than the installation of any other Joomla! component. In case you are not familiar with the procedure yet, the following is a quick summary of it.

After you have downloaded the component, log in as a Super Administrator in your website. From the top menu bar choose Installer Components. Click browse and locate the archive you have already downloaded. Then click on ”Upload & Install”.

The component is available only to the Super Administrator group. This is a security measure, since the generated backup files contain everything in your site! For more information on security concerns and advice, please take a look at the ”Security concerns” chapter in this document.

Make sure you have deinstalled any previous versions of the component prior to installing the new version. Joomla! does not offer a component upgrade path and will complain if you try to install the new version over the old one.

The main page – which loads when you click on Components > JoomlaPack – is called the “Control Panel” screen. From here you can see if everything is in working order and access all of the component’s functions and configuration options.

Backup Now

For back up, you just clicking back up now button then screen below will be appear

Backup Your Site is the normal option which will create a complete backup of both the files and database of your site.

Backup Your Database is a generic database backup option. It produces a dump of your database only. This dump is in a form that can be readily restored to your site with any MySQL.

During the backup, a process indicator will appear. It displays the three backup milestones (backing up database, creating archive file, backup is now complete).

Administer Backup Files

The “Backup File Administration” screen is the centralized location from where you can see all of the backup files that reside in the output folder and perform two basic administration tasks: download them to your local computer or delete them.

For complete manual + joomla pack component +KickStart : download here .

Restore/Load your joomla website on a webserver

By using kickstart ,The procedure for restoring your site is very simple and consists of four easy steps:

1.Uploading the necessary files

2. Launching Kickstart wizard to extract the backup

3. Go through the restoration procedure

4. Finalize the Kickstart wizard

Uploading the files

There are two files you need in order to deploy and restore your JoomlaPack archive: the archive itself (in ZIP or JPA format) and kickstart.php itself. All you have to do is upload them to the intended server location where your (restored) site will reside.

Kickstart can also be used against plain Joomla! distribution files in ZIP format; instead of uploading a JoomlaPack-generated backup archive you can upload a Joomla! distribution ZIP file and follow the same procedure.

Make sure that any folders in common with your backup file, if they exist, are writable! This is only required if you are restoring over an existing site.

The Kickstart wizard

In order to launch the Kickstart wizard, you simply visit the http://www.example.com/mysitefolder/kickstart.php, replacing www.example.com with your server’s host name and mysitefolder with whatever folder you uploaded your files into.

For example, if you uploaded the files to a folder named joomla and your host name is www.mygreatsite.com, location to put in your browser’s address bar is http://www.mygreatsite.com/joomla/kickstart.php . If you uploaded your files to the web server root (public.html) and the host name is www.mybigsite.com then the location in the address bar should be http://www.mybigsite.com/kickstart.php.

When you first launch Kickstart you will see a backup file selection drop-down list. If Kickstart detects that it is incompatible with your server setup it will show a warning instead.

Select your backup file, or leave the default if you have only uploaded a single file. Then press the “Start” button. The screen will get updated with the extraction process.

When Kickstart finishes the extraction of your backup file, the final wizard page appears.

The first link (“click here”) will open the installer embedded in the backup archive. More specifically, it will open the script installation/index.php, relative to the current directory. At this point do not close the Kickstart window!

Alternate version

There is also a kickstart2.php file, which uses JavaScript redirects instead of AJAX. It is meant for slow and unreliable hosts over slow and unreliable Internet connections. If the process hangs because of network failure you can always hit the refresh button on your browser to keep the process going without a problem. The page refresh will simply continue the process from right where it stopped working. Functionally, there is no other difference.

Finishing installation

Go through your joomla installation process as usual (when you install to your local host), only you need to create/fill a new database configuration by using your webserver data. Use steps below :

· Create a database (mysql in Cpanel…if they have a wizard run that)

· Then go to (mysql again and create a user, if you didn’t run the wizard.…make sure you don’t skip this part)

· Host Name: “localhost” (in most cases) or yourdomain.com

· User Name: database user name that you created above..make sure you are typing it in properly (Not sure what you user name is? Go to CPanel and MySql and scroll down and READ.)

· Password: This is the database user’s password you just created….(it’s not the password to your Cpanel or your FTP)

· Database Name: This is the name of the database you just created. ( Once again if you don’t know what it is go to cpanel/mysql and scroll down and READ).

When it’s done and you’re prompted to delete the installation directory, get back to the Kickstart window.Then click the second link. Seemingly nothing happens, but Kickstart restored your .htaccess (if you had one), deleted the backup archive and itself. You’re done; close the Kickstart window.And remove the installation folder. You are ready !

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For useful  resource , check these two information below  :

how-to-build-a-joomla-testing-environment-on-windows and How to back up your website

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