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Israel Unterman
Israel Unterman

Reputation: 13510

Copy joomla folder - data is shared?

I installed joomla! 1.5 in a subfolder of my website root. Months later I decided to put the joomla site in the root folder, so I copied everything from the subfolder to the root folder. This worked, but I noticed something strange - the webite data is somehow shared between the two copies. For example, the visitors counter. When I click a few articles in my root joomla copy, I can see that the visitors counter has incremented. When I then enter my subfolder original installation of joomla, I see the counter showing the same value of the root folder copy of joomla. My questions are: 1. How is this happening, can I disable this connection between the two folders? 2. Suppose I choose to continue using the copy of joomla in the root folder without disconnecting the connection with the subfolder installation, am I going to encounter problems, or is it safe to just use the root folder copy?

Thank you very much!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 124

Answers (1)

Brent Friar
Brent Friar

Reputation: 10609

Both copies are using the same database. You'll start running in to issues once you have added any extensions that make changes to the database. There is no need for the old files, just delete them.

Upvotes: 2

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