Kunena 6.2.5 & module Kunena Latest 6.0.7 released
The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 6.2.5 [K 6.2.5] which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 4.3.x/4.4.x/5.0.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.1 / K 6.2 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 6.2
Solved Reinstalling Joomla! files after being hacked
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Do-you have keeped the kunena tables (nammed *_kunena_*) in your database ?
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I wanted to ask another question regarding uploading folders with lots of images and avatars. Paraguay and I have 12,000 members on my website. That is one hell of a lot of avatars that takes literally ages to either upload or download/delete. Is there any way of uploading these individual folders a little quicker? I was wondering if I could zip the folder to make it small in size, then months is uploaded, unzip it. Does that make sense
Mind you, I shall be using Akeeba so I think this may reduce everything in size already, can't remember, I haven't used it for ages.
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For upload the images and attachments, if you have SSH access you can zip it and upload it.
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The short answer to your question is yes.Oscarfishlover wrote: I am in the midst of reinstalling all my core files. When I reinstall the Kunena forum component, will I have to do redo all the sections and categories again, or well they automatically appear? I know that everything will be in place in the database, I'm just not sure what will happen after I reinstall the software for the forum.
One of my [last remaining J! 1.5] websites was recently hacked—most of the Joomla PHP files were destroyed—but my Kunena-based forum was unaffected. As I have written before in this place, there are three essential things that you need in order to install or re-install Kunena on a Joomla website:
- the Joomla user database tables (including the Joomla ACL table);
- the Kunena database tables; and
- the attachment files
It is possible to re-install Kunena even if some of the original tables are missing. The forum sections and categories are defined in the table _kunena_categories. As long as you have this table, your will not have to redo your forum sections and categories. When you distill Kunena down to its very "core", it consists of three database tables: _kunena_categories, _kunena_messages, _kunena_messages_text. If you lose any of these three tables you can, basically, kiss your old forum good-bye. The other database tables are important but they are really the "icing on the cake". If any database table is missing, at the time you perform the Kunena installation procedure, it will be added again but, obviously, with default column values.
Short answer to your question is yes. You can use Akeeba Backup to create an archive of the avatars and attachments files, copy the .JPA (or .ZIP) archive file to your reconstructed site, and then use Akeeba Kickstart to unzip the files into their same relative locations. There's only one condition for this to be able to work: the condition is that you can login to the backend of your old/hacked site and that you can still use Akeeba Backup there.Oscarfishlover wrote: I wanted to ask another question regarding uploading folders with lots of images and avatars. I was wondering if I could zip the [files from my old site] ... then unzip [them on my new site]. ... I shall be using Akeeba so I think this may reduce everything in size already, can't remember, I haven't used it for ages.
I would have used this method except that I could not login to the Joomla administrator part of my hacked website. Under conditions like those you would need some other mechanism of making an archive file (in .ZIP or some other format). As xillibit wrote, if you have direct console access to both sites—the hacked site and the site you're reconstructing—then you could perform the zipping and unzipping if you are a "dab hand" at using SSH commands. SSH is not for total novice users.
The short answer, however, is yes.
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It's possible to go back to K 3.0.8 (if you were using K 4.0.x before) but you have to make a small change to the _kunena_config table.
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1) Import database
2) copy the basic joomla files, to your ftp. and the configuration file.
3) login on the backend,Update joomla,
4) Install the lasted kunena version.
5) copy your attachments/avatars to the new site
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So I will install the forum software again and hope that all the tables in the database marry up properly and I still have my 500,000 postings and 13,000 members.
One of the biggest headaches that I have found is that because I have so many members I'm finding that the avatar folder, plus some of the image folders are absolutely huge. It took a long time to download both images and avatars folders from the kunena section, God knows how long it will take to upload them again. I was wondering if there is any way I can zip these folders, upload them and then unzip them again, is this possible?
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