Possible to save this Magento site? Noobie dev question

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My mom is trying to save her old biz site, she's not good with this stuff at all. She finally asked for my help and the development firm sent me this "flattened" (as they put it) version of a Magento site when I asked for the database files and the site folder -- didn't think that was harmless to get.

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I'm a noobie with dev/server myself but this doesn't look like a full cpanel export and I don't have all the necessary files to put the site back up (with their content and everything), right?

I just want to make sure I can hire someone to do this without them being confused as hell for a couple days wasting time.

Edit: we're just putting it up temporarily to get everything back content wise/design -- it's not in google cache, archive.org, or any other popular web archive sites.
 


That is probably a full cpanel export. There are not really that many folders to Magento. App and Skin have the theme and extensions for the most part.

You could download a copy of Magento of the exact version you have and compare it. Some extra things are extensions and mods.

And the pics are probably in /media.

If you have a database backup or can get one you should be good to go. Might need to reset the database pointer or overwrite an admin password.

Hint: Use SSH not FTP to put those files up. Filezilla will miss some files.
 
Looks fine to me, and as mentioned, database dump is probably in the sql directory.

Looks like you might have an extra file or two you never knew about as well! For example, what's "Evilution"? Might one to open that one up in a text editor, and see what's inside. If it doesn't look like Magento code, delete it.
 
Thanks for all the replies so far guys.

Nothing in SQL folder, that's what made it weird... If you think at 1st look it is a full cpanel export then I should be good to go on getting a developer to rip at this. It didn't look like it had any of the database files anywhere from what I saw.


Edit: I couldn't download Magento to compare this because apparently it's an old version and I'm not sure how they are with changing things around -- I'm a hater, I like Opencart.
 
Wow, looks like there is a lot of bullshit in there.

The first place I'd check is in var/backups. This is the default backup location if the developer performed the backup using the utility inside Magento admin.

If it's not there and you still have access to the Magento admin panel, this utility is located in System > Tools > Backup. Do it yourself and the files will be outputted to the path mentioned above.

If that's not an option and you have access to this server via SSH, you can get the database by using mysqldump. First, you need to know the name of the database, the user and the password. This should be located in app/etc/local.xml. Once you have that, type the following in your terminal:

mysqldump --opt -u YOURUSERNAME -pYOURPASSWORD DATABASENAME > yoursitedump.sql

That will output the entire database into the filename you specified. Certain characters in your pass can screw up -pYOURPASSWORD, so in that case simply put it -p and after you hit enter it will prompt you to enter your password.

If SSH isn't an option, you can do a dump from phpmyadmin - but timeouts can be an issue with that depending on the size of the database and your configuration.

Good luck.
 
nvanprooyen said:
Wow, looks like there is a lot of bullshit in there.

The first place I'd check is in var/backups. This is the default backup location if the developer performed the backup using the utility inside Magento admin.

If it's not there and you still have access to the Magento admin panel, this utility is located in System > Tools > Backup. Do it yourself and the files will be outputted to the path mentioned above.

If that's not an option and you have access to this server via SSH, you can get the database by using mysqldump. First, you need to know the name of the database, the user and the password. This should be located in app/etc/local.xml. Once you have that, type the following in your terminal:

mysqldump --opt -u YOURUSERNAME -pYOURPASSWORD DATABASENAME > yoursitedump.sql

That will output the entire database into the filename you specified. Certain characters in your pass can screw up -pYOURPASSWORD, so in that case simply put it -p and after you hit enter it will prompt you to enter your password.

If SSH isn't an option, you can do a dump from phpmyadmin - but timeouts can be an issue with that depending on the size of the database and your configuration.

Good luck.
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Thanks a lot man, very thorough. I will give this a crack with a dev in a little bit.
 
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