Things you should know about Akeeba Kickstart

  1. Kickstart is not an installer. It is an archive extraction tool. The actual installer was put inside the archive file at backup time.
  2. Kickstart is bound by your server's configuration. As such, it may not work at all.
  3. You should download and upload your archive files using FTP in Binary transfer mode. Any other method could lead to a corrupt backup archive and restoration failure.
  4. Post-restoration site load errors are usually caused by .htaccess or php.ini directives. You should understand that blank pages, 404 and 500 errors can usually be worked around by editing the aforementioned files. It is not our job to mess with your configuration files, because this could be dangerous for your site.
  5. Kickstart overwrites files without a warning. If you are not sure that you are OK with that do not continue.
  6. Trying to restore to the temporary URL of a cPanel host (e.g. http://1.2.3.4/~username) will lead to restoration failure and your site will appear to be not working. This is normal and it's just how your server and CMS software work.
  7. You are supposed to read the documentation before using this software. Most issues can be avoided, or easily worked around, by understanding how this software works.
  8. This text does not imply that there is a problem detected. It is standard text displayed every time you launch Kickstart.
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Increase the minimum to 3 if you get AJAX errors. Increase the maximum to 10 for faster extraction, decrease back to 5 if you get AJAX errors. Try minimum 5, maximum 1 (not a typo!) if you keep getting AJAX errors.


					
					
						
					
					


					
					
						
					
					

					
When enabled, only visitors from your IP address will be able to see the site until the restoration is complete. Everyone else will be redirected to and only see the URL above. Your server must see the real IP of the visitor (this is controlled by your host, not you or us).


											
						
							
						
						

						
Tries to delete all existing files and folders under the directory where Kickstart is stored before extracting the backup archive. It DOES NOT take into account which files and folders exist in the backup archive. Files and folders deleted by this feature CAN NOT be recovered. WARNING! THIS MAY DELETE FILES AND FOLDERS WHICH DO NOT BELONG TO YOUR SITE. USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION. BY ENABLING THIS FEATURE YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY.

					
					
					
						
					
					

					
Renames .htaccess, web.config, php.ini and .user.ini contained in the archive while extracting. Files are renamed with a .bak extension. The file names are restored when you click on Clean Up.


					
					
						
					
					

					
Applies the file permissions (but NOT file ownership) which was stored at backup time. Only works with JPA and JPS archives. Does not work on Windows (PHP does not offer such a feature).


					
					
						
					
					

					
Enter a file path such as images/cat.png or shell pattern such as images/*.png on each line. Only files matching this list will be written to disk. Leave empty to extract everything (default).

				

			


			


			

				
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