Migrating Contao after new Installation (no BackUp)

[radiac]

Hi together,

due to some circumstances I had to reinstall my OS and also XAMPP and Contao. I still have the old XAMPP and Contao Folder and I would like to migrate my project to the new installation.

Well, it seems like copy and paste doesn't work, but unfortunately and don't have another backup of my project which I could import. Does somebody now a workarround so that I don't need to start over again?

Best regards!

Lars

[xchs]

I've done that some time ago. You'll need at least the "htdocs" folder with your Contao installation and the MySQL database resources located in "mysql/data". As for the MySQL thing it is a little bit tricky to copy only the relevant data. So it might be a good idea to backup the current "mysql/data" folder first.

[radiac]

I got my XAMPP running now (the old version). But if I want to access my contao back end I only get:

Sdwn
À ### INSTALL SCRIPT START ### $GLOBALS['TL_CONFIG']['licenseAccepted'] = true; ### INSTALL SCRIPT STOP ### Sdwn
À ### INSTALL SCRIPT START ### $GLOBALS['TL_CONFIG']['licenseAccepted'] = true; ### INSTALL SCRIPT STOP ###

I guess that Contao is only working with relative pathes, so it shouldn't be a problem with the change of the Path. The MySQL database is still the old one, so the database itself and the LogIn is still the same.

Is this now still a problem of XAMPP or of Contao?

[xchs]

It seems to be a problem with your "system/config/localconfig.php" file. Just try to rename that file to e.g. "localconfig.php.bak" and run the Contao install tool again (you will have to enter the database credentials again, though)

[radiac]

That solved the problem! I just had to repair the sessions table in the database - know everything is working again. Thank you very much for your help!