I made a backup of an existing Joomla website hosted on Siteground at Globalcoachcenter.com using the Akeeba backup and the kickstart extension.
I uploaded the .jpa
file via FTP to a sub-directory on my Go Daddy server and setup a new subdomain assessment.globalcoachcenter.com
to access it so I can make changes.
I extracted all of the files using the kickstart.php
file, but on the Akeeba 'Restoration and Clean Up' page when I click 'View your site's frontend' it takes me back to the original Joomla installation on the Siteground account. In other words, it goes to Globalcoachcenter.com
instead of assessment.globalcoachcenter.com
. When I click ''View your site's backend' I get a nice note from my ISP saying the website cannot be found.
What I've done / tried:
Exported the SQL database from the original Joomla install on Siteground and uploaded it into a new DB on Go Daddy.
Updated the
configuration.php
file with the new DB name, DB user and DB password and also made sure that the$log_path
and$tmp_path
are pointing to my sub-directory.Updated the
$live_site
to:var $live_site = 'http://assessment.globalcoachcenter.com';
I discovered a
modrewrite
in the.htaccess
file but I'm not very good with rewrites - see full rewrite below.
Here's the .htaccess Rewrite:
##### Automatic compression of resources -- END
##### Redirect index.php to / -- BEGIN
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^POST
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT}>s ^(443>(s)|[0-9]+>s)$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http%2://www.globalcoachcenter.com/ [R,L]
##### Redirect index.php to / -- END
##### Redirect non-www to www -- BEGIN
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R,L]
##### Redirect non-www to www -- END
Can anyone help? Am I missing another step?
I'm very new to Joomla, please let me know if I need to post more info, I'd be happy to.
Thanks very much in advance.
Update: