To remove and reinstall a fresh copy of Joomla on my local machine (used for testing and developing components), I found the following steps to be successful:
- Make note of the database information from the configuration.php file:
- Database name: Joom4b
- User and User password
- Prefix if you want to retain same
- Make note of Joomla SuperAdmin user name and password
- Open the Joomla folder in Windows Explorer
- Select All files and folders.
- Delete
- Open MySQL Workbench
- Select the Schema that matches the database name
- Expand Tables
- Select each table and delete (from right click options) - you can do all at once.
You are now ready to install fresh copy
- Download and/or move full version zip file to root or your Site's folder
- Extract all.
- Point destination to the folder you wish Joomla to run. In my case ...\webroot\Sites\Joom4b
- It may take 2-5 minutes to extract.
- Open browser to localhost
- Enter URL for the stie. In my case:
- ...\webroot\Sites\Joom4b
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I upgraded my localhost server's php on Windows 10 machine and had difficulty getting the correct php.ini file to load.
According to phpinfo(), the correct php version 8.3.4, was running, but the Loaded Configuration File continued to load from the folder containing the previous version php code. Interestingly, the previous version php path was no longer in the PATH environment variable.
Searches for problems with php.ini were all over the place, but eventually on Stack Exchange serverfault I saw reference to an Apache Configuration file directive: PHPIniDir. So I searched my Program Files folder for any reference to PHPIniDir and found ApacheLounge\Apache24\conf\httpd.conf with the directive set to the previous php version's folder.
I changed it to .../ProgramFiles/php-8.3.4 and it worked!
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With this remote Dev site now back up and running, this is a good time to try installing com_generic to ensure it behaves same on both local host and remote hosted sites.
Changelog and Updates files indicate most recent version is com_generic_1_1_12.
So first I want to verify the releases folder is up to date on github. -- com_generic_1_1_12.zip is in releases/Joomla/generic and Visual Code Source Control shows nothing new for releases on Github.
Point the installation URL for installing the extension to https://rodgerbj.github.io/releases/com_generic_1_1_11.zip. Installed with no errors.
- Installed with no errors
- Visually looked good in the backend
- Successfully added League 2024 Barning Tee with access set to Registered.
- Nothing appeared on the front end because no front end module yet exists.
- Create menu for front end.
- It would be helpful to have the installation include the creation of module and at least one menu item for the front end
- Also needed to set category, access level, and publish each of the stblrec records.
- Successfully appeared on front end.
- Note: Field1 didn't initially display until I edited permissions in the backend.
- Then both the label and value for Field1 displayed
- Subsequently changed options to not display the label for Field1. Worked as expected.
- From the systems menu, check for updates to extensions
- Both Akeeba and Com_Generic appear to have updates.
- First - make a backkup of everything.
- Updated Akeeba Backup. Success!
- Updated Com_generic. Success, with the following warning:
- Warning This extension does not provide a checksum for validation of the integrity of the downloaded file.
- From backend.
- Created Players Category for Stblrecs - Access level is Public
- Created Menu for Category Player Stblreds - Access level is Registered
- Records appeared in front end as expected.
- Edited a record to change the custom field. While a successful record saved notice appeared, the value of the custom field did not change.
- Also, record counts for each of the categories were all 0.
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