Xampp with Joomla not configured correctly

Question

I've been configuring Joomla to work on my PC using Xampp. At work I have it configured for a Mac with OSX server. I imported my database to the new SQL tables, and brought all my Joomla files over. Almost everything seems to be working other then a few things.

This information here gets put on the top of all my files, and it also shows a page of it before it loads to the next page:

Mac OS X 2 ATTR; com.apple.quarantine0001;53c81c76;Firefox.app;This resource fork intentionally left blank Mac OS X 2 ATTR; com.apple.quarantine0001;53c81c76;Firefox.app;This resource fork intentionally left blank Mac OS X

I'm not sure why this is. Some images don't work as well. I looked it up but I don't see it anywhere. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

My guess is you've copied across some of the invisible Mac specific files ( .DS_Store , .CFUserTextEncoding etc) and possibly some of the invisible directories (eg .Trash ).

Either way this is not the best way to copy an existing Joomla site to your development environment as you will experience problems like this one and possibly permissions issues.

I would recommend that you go and download the free and well-thought-of " Akeeba Backup " and Akeeba Kickstart . Install Akeeba Backup on your live site and make a backup .

Then copy the unzipped Akeeba Kickstart to your Xampp setup along with the newly created backup file(s) and step through the process of restoring the site to your local setup.

All up this should take about 10-15 minutes (plus download/upload times etc) and will result in a near perfect copy of your site. (I say near perfect as you Xampp is likely to have different versions of PHP, MySQL etc and of course is a different Operating System).