Xampp and Joomla issues...

Vidar · 12 May 2012 at 11:59

Hi guys,

Despite my personal feelings on the matter I've had to install Xammp and Joomla onto my computer in order to complete a college assignment, however despite Xammp and joomla installing with no problems I am now unable to uninstall templates that I wish to edit and cannot get Filezilla to run...

Filezilla tells me its busy and shuts down, its only been since Filezilla refuses to run that I have been unable to to uninstall templates etc in Joomla,

I've googled it but cannot seem to find the answer!

piggeh · 12 May 2012 at 15:52

why are you using filezilla if it's on your own PC? Can't you use windows explorer to access the template files?

Vidar · 12 May 2012 at 16:11

I have no idea, ive installed what i was told i needed to

Emphacy · 12 May 2012 at 16:35

What are you using to run your computer as a webserver? Apache? WebMatrix?

The only reason I can think of using FileZilla is that you're running Joomla on an external web server. It's not needed for a website running on your PC.

Vidar · 12 May 2012 at 17:16

Apache,

Deleted member 77746 · 13 May 2012 at 15:28

Confused to why you are running filezilla. When you say you can't uninstall a template where are you trying to do it from?

you could just browse to the xampp www directory to do what you need to do.

sjs · 13 May 2012 at 17:55

I think its a fair bet he/she is talking about Filezilla Server which is part of the Xampp bundle.

You can try navigating to the FileZilla directory in your Xampp installation and starting it manually, it might give you a better clue as to why its not working.

Having said that its surprising that Joomla feels it needs to use FTP in a local environment. Try going to into the server settings in the Joomla config and turning off FTP.