Softaculous

Topic : Joomla frontend

Posted By: w.eeken on April 20, 2012, 10:43 am

Since early march I,m using AMPPS(now 1.7). Have installed Joomla (now2.5.4) as localhost.
Everything worked fine, but yesterday morning when I was starting up AMPPS I couldn't reach Joomla frontend anymore. However the backend was reachable and I was able to e.g. update articles etc. Also from the backend I couldn't start the frontend. Apparently I have done something wrong, allthough I don't know what.

Help is very much appreciated.

W. Eeken

Posted By: Brijesh on April 20, 2012, 10:50 am | Post: 1

Hi,

Do you have any recent backup ?
If yes you can restore it.

Or did you recently install any plugin ? Try to uninstall the recent plugins.

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Posted By: w.eeken on April 20, 2012, 7:52 pm | Post: 2

No, I didn't have a backup.
I uninstalled the plug-ins. No result.
I still cann't reach the frontend.

Does this mean that I have to reinstall everything again?

Or is there a shorter way?

Posted By: Brijesh on April 21, 2012, 6:34 am | Post: 3

Hi,

Try to revert back the changes that you made recently which might have disabled access to the Frontend.
The last option would be to reinstall Joomla.

For future we recommend that you take regular backups. You may refer to the following docs on how to take backup :
http://softaculous.com/docs/How_to_Backup_an_Installation

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Posted By: w.eeken on April 24, 2012, 10:13 am | Post: 4

For sure I will from now on make backups.
This morning I accidently made Google Chrome my default browser at startup.
I allready had installed another Joomla 2.5.4
The funny thing though what happened was that, when trying to start the old
Joomla version, it worked under Google Chrome.
When changing my default browser to IE it again didn't start.
When changing to Firefox it also worked.

So I can continue now, allthough I don't understand what I have done wrong.

Thanks for the assistance.

W. Eeken

Posted By: Brijesh on April 24, 2012, 10:48 am | Post: 5

Hi,

Which version of IE are you using ? Maybe some extension or plugin you must have installed on your Joomla which is not compatible with IE.

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