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Hi, I'm using JoomlaCloner to put a site onto our virtual machine using the direct install option. The site is just out of development and so needs to be at a new url. JoomlaCloner restores all of the files and gives the screen containing

QUOTE:
JoomlaCloner Automatic Restore!
Permissions restored to their initial value...

Files succesfully copied to /var/www/www.miramar-property.com/htdocs/
Configuration updated!

Please click here to continue with database import...

Clicking on the link gives a 500 Internal Server Error page. The install directory ( /var/www/www.miramar-property.com/htdocs/ ) has been set with permissions 777 for this process and the configuration.php file restored looks to be accurately modified. All php options are in accordance with the JoomlaCloner requirements and the database details were certainly correct (this is the third time I have attempted the restore with the same result).

The mysql database is just not being imported. Any help would be much appreciated.

P.S. attempting to view any file at miramar-property.com (html or php) gives the same 500 error.

Update: I have now tried various combinations of permissions, the only way to get to the screen quoted above is to have htdocs set to 777, otherwise I just get the error screen saying that htdocs is not writable. Since having permissions set to 777 is a possible cause of the 500 internal server error, how can I get around this?

The 500 error is caused by a memory limit, have you tried checking the "incremental sql import" option to restore the database?

Ovidiu

To get round the problem I've taken the .sql file from administrator/backups and imported it via phpMyAdmin so the database is in place now. I was still getting the 500 error so I tried removing the .htaccess file which did the trick. This is worrying since there's nothing nothing in the .htaccess which my server should disagree with but at least it's a step in the right direction . Thanks for the reply.