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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By : John Horton
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store! This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the backup of your Joomla! VirtueMart site


So disaster has struck! Here is how to get things up and running again and try and avoid future disasters.

Getting ready

We will assume a typical scenario. Files are infected/deleted and the database is corrupted beyond repair. It could actually be a little bit worse. The database could have been deleted. In which case you would need to recreate it using your web hosts database tools as you would have done in the Installing Joomla! 2.5 in your web space recipe in Chapter 1, Setting Up Shop.

How to do it...

Put the files you created while doing your site backup from the Creating a backup of your Joomla VirtueMart site recipe, on your desktop.

  1. Open FileZilla and connect to your site. File | Site Manager | Your site | Connect.

  2. Let's start clean. In the right hand window of FileZilla, right click on your corrupted Joomla! install folder and select Delete as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Next, when FileZilla is ready, delete the VirtueMart safe path...