OK, thanks for the suggestions about WAMP. It really wasn't my priority, because it chewed up so much of my time the first time around for almost zero benefit. (For example, one of the recommended stickies says "If you want to use PHP in FCGI mode", so then I would have to spend a heap of time figuring out what that means, do I need it, or want it. Please do not explain FCGI mode to me now: I am just mentioning it as an illustration of how installing & using WAMP is not simple at all. There's also mention of xDebug, and I have a vague recollection of this being yet another thing I had to investigate at the time.)
I am willing to install/upgrade Extensions without WAMP (which I've done before, but not from a GitHub fork), and potentially also upgrade Joomla! itself without WAMP (certainly I have done many minor updates before, but not a major version upgrade).
Nevertheless, Akeeba Backup at least looks useful.
Do you have any advice on my queries regarding Virtual Domains?
Or are you implying that it would be extremely difficult to do without WAMP?
I didn't really want to get too far off track, but I have unresolved issues using FTP (it used to work, currently doesn't work), and my laptop HDD is nearly full & on the verge of being replaced. So right now if there's something that can simply be done on the server, that'd be advantageous.
Actually, it did occur to me to potentially set up an unadvertised folder under public_html on the server just for testing, and copy the existing website there too. But I have a feeling that wouldn't be quite as simple as it sounds either (e.g. problems with .htaccess, URL rewriting, subdomains, internal links, ...).
I am willing to install/upgrade Extensions without WAMP (which I've done before, but not from a GitHub fork), and potentially also upgrade Joomla! itself without WAMP (certainly I have done many minor updates before, but not a major version upgrade).
Nevertheless, Akeeba Backup at least looks useful.
Do you have any advice on my queries regarding Virtual Domains?
Or are you implying that it would be extremely difficult to do without WAMP?
I didn't really want to get too far off track, but I have unresolved issues using FTP (it used to work, currently doesn't work), and my laptop HDD is nearly full & on the verge of being replaced. So right now if there's something that can simply be done on the server, that'd be advantageous.
Actually, it did occur to me to potentially set up an unadvertised folder under public_html on the server just for testing, and copy the existing website there too. But I have a feeling that wouldn't be quite as simple as it sounds either (e.g. problems with .htaccess, URL rewriting, subdomains, internal links, ...).
Statistics: Posted by Diver001 — Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:46 am