Joomla Backup to run Locally

[pksmile]

Dear Members,

Can a downloaded backup of Joomla website be run on localhost? If yes, what changes I need to do locally?


Regards,
Pksmile

 

[hbazer]

For copying a Joomla website - see --> http://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_Joomla_website

 

[pksmile]

Thanks for reply, but the reason, I asked this question here is that I've already downloaded the website data via FTP and removed everything from Server. I placed the unzipped backup folder under "C:\xampp\htdocs\joomla". So now as I try to run loclhost "//localhost/joomla" it gives me following error."Database Error: Unable to connect to the Database: Could not connect to MySQL."Please note that I've not done any changes to backup. Just placed the unzipped backup downloaded via FTP in htdocs.

 

[hbazer]

You have a lot of work - to move a Joomla website from a 'Linux' system to a 'Windows' system

Where did you install the database backup that was on your x10hosting's server ?