Very Quick Joomla Question

[ShaMenz]

Hi,

A client's site was previously built in Joomla and he wants us to reproduce content that was in there, but the Joomla site is no longer live and has come to me as an archive containing all the files and folders that were included.

So, I am looking at the files and folders without Joomla installed.

Can someone tell me quickly how to find the where the actual page content was stored?

I started looking, but there are some folders I cannot open and nothing that looks as I expected.

Would appreciate a hint or two from someone who knows Joomla well.. Life is too short!

Thanks

Sha

[KeriMorgret]

I don't have experience with Joomla, and have just cursed over a website in Mambo, but the first part of these instructions for copying a Joomla website make it look like the content is in a MySQL database much like Wordpress. I don't know where right off to look for that database, or if the client would have it in the archive you were given, but it's at least a start of where to look.

http://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_Joomla_website

[ShaMenz]

Thanks Keri,

Yep, it was the Db I was searching for, but the site was a GoDaddy install and was moved to different server because of software install issues. So, having checked Wayback, Google cache and searched through the files without finding a Database, I think I can just refill my mug and settle in to write some new content.

To be honest, that's not really so bad - I'd rather start from scratch than rewrite bad copy any day! Less than a dozen pages, so its all good.

Most importantly, I now know that I am still sane and not as stupid as I was starting to fear, so thanks for helping resolve that!

Have a great weekend!

Sha