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I have been asked to update a live Joomla sailing club website with the directory structure as follows: root/html/joomla. I want to test the updates before installing on the live site.

Have successfully cloned the website and installed on Wamp with the identical directory structure where www=root.
When I click on "html" I get:
Index of /html
[ICO] Name Last modified Size Description
[DIR] Parent Directory -
[DIR] joomla/ 01-Jul-2009 03:56 -

When I click on "joomla" I get:
You have chosen to open "nothing here" which is a: php File (2.0kB ) from: [localhost]
What should Firefox do with this file?

Please tell me what I should write and where to get this working. I am sure it is simple, but beyond my experience. All other cloned sites installed in the root directory are working perfectly.
Help, as I know as a sailor I am out of my depth

I keep trying and put this in the httpd.conf file of the Apache server.

Redirect permanent /html /joomla/index.php

This turns up in the browser url bar
[localhost]

and the browser says

The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

So getting closer. Anyone care to tell me what I am doing incorrectly?

OK, I have learnt a lot in the last two days and it was pure torture!
Any how I have installed joomla in C:\wamp\www\html\joomla

Joomla is still not working but I think that I am close.

This var declaration is not correct ??? var $live_site ='http://localhost/html/joomla'; or
what should it be? I could not find any statements about subdirectories on localhost only on http servers.

Please help.

In Joomla folder, open file joomla.sql and find

TYPE=MyISAM

Replace w/

ENGINE=MyISAM

To setup Joomla on Wamp, follow this
[blog.jlbn.net]

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