Php – Trouble migrating Joomla from Linux to Windows server

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I'm having some trouble migrating a Joomla website from a Linux server to a Windows server. The database came over fine, Besides that, all I've done is download all the files from the current site, and change configuration.php so the log and tmp directories show "./tmp/" and "./logs/"

I keep having an error in the PHP log stating

PHP Fatal error: Class 'JTable' not
found

I've downloaded the site multiple times now, and I'm convinced this is a configuration problem, and not a missing file problem. I've even tried installing a mod for backup on the linux box to try and migrate the site, but sadly the mod had problems installing.

The new server is running IIS 7.5 on Windows Web Server. PHP 5.2.14 and MySQL

Best Answer

I couldn't manage to fix this issue by copying over the existing site, so I ended up using the Microsoft Web Platform to install a new instance of Joomla. Then I copied over all the components, languages, plugins, templates, etc and then restored the database. Bit of a work around but everything is working now.

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Installing Joomla on Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7.0

Someone mentioned you need to grant both IUSR_ and IWAM_ read and write permissions to those folders in need. Not sure what context PHP executes in but IIS may not use the account you think it does for certain operations. IWAM_ is used to run scripts like CGI as far as I recall.

administrator/backups,
administrator/components,
administrator/modules,
administrator/templates,
cache,
components,
configuration.php,
images,
images/stories,
language,
mambots,
media,
modules,
plugins,
plugins/content,
plugins/editors,
plugins/editors-xtd,
plugins/search,
templates

Are you using FastCGI or ISAPI for PHP?

Php – 500 error after dragging joomla website out of subdirectory

You haven't specified a Joomla! version but this is our current check list for migrating a Joomla! 2.5.x websites to a live location:

fix the configuration.php file settings for tmp & log directories.
Clean out the cache directories
check the permissions on:
1. .htaccess
2. index.php and /administrator/index.php
3. make sure folders are 755 and files 644 or lower

We do these steps on any move not just ones where we end up with a server error.

If those steps don't rectify (usually do for 99% of 500 errors) check the Apache error log to see if there are any clues to the root cause of the problem.

If you find something in the log you're not clear on add it to your question so people can provide further help.

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