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I have noticed that there are many posts about Xcloner hanging on localhost installations. I have been experiencing the same problem for a while. I am back at it - trying to get it fixed. I noticed that immediately after I installed xcloner 2.1 I was able to configure and make a backup. But after that, I can only get to the main xcloner page once in a while and when I land there, I can't go any further (i.e., change configurations or initiate any backups). Sometimes the main page Icon menus don't appear (just the side menu) and the browser just keeps churning. Sometimes not even the side menu appears, there is just a blank space in the component area under the main joomla administrative menu system, and the browser just keeps churning. If I select another item from the Joomla administrative menu, it will switch - but sometimes I can't even do that - instead the browser just keeps churning and the programs stays hung.
I am using the new XAMPP 1.6.7 installation on my local host with it's default settings; and the new Joomla 1.5.6. Windows XP SP2 system. Pentium dual core, 2 gigs ram.

Never had this problem with the Joomlacloner version working on Joomla version 1.0.x.

Any answers yet?
Thanks for your help.

Have you tried restarting your XAMPP server? both mysql and apache server should be restarted, the issue you have seems to be related somehow to the apache server!

Ovidiu

Thanks for your reply above and your help.

And - I really like Xcloner. When I was using it on my Joomla 1.0.x site it was great. I am anxious to get it working on my Joomla 1.5 site - as it is a real-time saver.

I have solved the problem which initiating this post, but now have another problem. I have searched the forums but have not found anything to help.

New problem is with login authentication on live site after cloning the localhost site to the live site.

I have XCloner 2.0 working after I did a completely new install of xampp 1.6.7 and Joomla 1.5.6 on my localhost server today.

I can get the xcloner backup file to clone from the localhost to my shared server hosted by 1and1.com.
I can get to the live site frontpage and navigate the site. I can also get to the livesite administrator login page. However that is where I run into a problem.

When I try to login as the administrator with my user name and password, I get a blank browser window with only the following error text present:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method: stdClass->onauthenticate() in /homepages/31/d162490781/htdocs/collegemain/libraries/joomla/user/authentication.php on line 121

Via FTP I went to the authentication.php file on the live site referenced in the error message above and here is the code from lines 120 and 121 in that file:

120 // Try to authenticate
121 $plugin->onAuthenticate $credentials, $options, $response);

The same code in the authentication.php file on my localhost is identical to this code on my live site.

I can still authenticate as normal on my localhost but cannot on the live 1and1 hosted site.

I created a new xcloner backup of the localhost site and then cloned that backup to the hosted site again, but still have the same problem. (I made sure I had deleted the xcloner "tgz" backup file and the xcloner.php and the TAR.php files from the previous cloning effort from the livesite root directory before I attempted my second cloning effort.)

URL of live site is: www.collegezap.com
Localhost Info:
Windows XP Pro, SP3
Firefox 2.0.0.15
Xampp 1.6.7 defaults are: PHP - 5.2.6; MySQL - 5.0.51b; Apache - 2.2.9
Joomla 1.5.6

LiveSite Info:
Provider: 1and1.com
Shared hosting
PHP - ??
MySQL - 5.0.?


This sounds like it might be a permissions problem, but I don't have a clue where to start looking.

Can you help on this? Thanks.

Have you checked the disk space available on your restore host? It needs to be at least twice the backup archive size so you don't run into restore file issues, which from the above error you seem to have!

Try also emptying the restore directory and retry the restore process, but use this time the "Install files directly" option and see if you have anymore issues

Let me know if you have further issues! Ovidiu

Hi there,

unfortunately I got the same problem, xcloner hangs on localhost site.
What do I have:
- managed server in a providers server farm
- server name 'localhost'
- not be able to start/restart apache nor mysql, because of managed server restrictions (is not a root server handled by myself)

I verified the problem by testig xcloner on a usual webhosters space with unique server name and it works very well.
My problem is I bought Xcloner unlimited ($100) and getting afraid of not be able to use it.

What can I do?

Thanx
Ian

Are you able to send us some access details to the localhost site if it can be accessed online? If so, please open a support ticket for that!

Otherwise, if you can open the XCloner Config screen, try and set the "Backup multiple databases" option from the XCloner Config->Mysql tab to No and see if you have anymore issues

Regards, Ovidiu