New installation using old tables - possible? - Joomla! Forum - community, help and support


i had working joomla 3.0 installation made terrible mistake moving files , trashed site.

is possible re-install , use data existing tables? save me hours of work.

after new installation, changing table prefix in configuration.php enough?

alagazam wrote:i had working joomla 3.0 installation made terrible mistake moving files , trashed site.
can't not move files back? have back-up of files?

alagazam wrote:is possible re-install , use data existing tables?
no, not possible re-install joomla! existing table. during option have option back-up existing tables or overwrite existing table - no option use existing table.

alagazam wrote:after new installation, changing table prefix in configuration.php enough?
yes, possible. have change value of prefix in in following variable.

code: select all

   public $dbprefix = 'abcde_';
where abcde_ table prefix

note: suggest taking database content back-up using utilities such phpmyadmin before attempting next install.





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