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Hi, I am new to the CiviCRM product. I took a look at installing it on the provider I and one of my client uses, 1&1.com, and I had problems installing it. Some of these problems are already mentioned in posts in this forum. I tried several ways to install the product but it seems the issue is with memory size and the time outs. At first glance, I really like the product a lot. It will be really good for the registration process I am working on. I installed on my local Windows XP machine using XAMPP setup with MySQL 5.x and PHP5, under Joomla 1.5 and 1.0.15 without any issues whatsoever. I will be using my local environment to test the work I am doing, as best practice, but I want to confirm a couple of items with some of you since I think I found a way for me to install CiviCRM on Joomla 1.0.15 and run it on the hosting servers at 1&1.

These are the steps I took, please let me know if anyone else has tried this or see any issues with it:

1. Setup a virgin Joomla 1.0.15 installation, new Mysql DB, new root directory, on my local environment.
2. Install CiviCRM 2.0 and any other extensions I need on my local environment.
3. Configure and work on my local environment until I have the product working the way I wish.
4. TAR and GZIP the Joomla root directory.
5. Upload the tar.gz file to my hosting server and unpack all files into fresh directory.
6. Export the DB with all the data, using phpMyAdmin of course.
7. Access hosting server MySQL phpMyAdmin and import the SQL file from #6, and create all tables and data.
8. Update the Joomla configuration file "configuration.php" and the CiviCRM configuration file "civicrm.settings.php"
9. Update some items in CiviCRM administration, such as folders for uploads, etc.

BTW, the step that took the longest was finding a TAR product for windows to pack the directories since for some reason the unzip 5.50 at the hosting service could not keep the case-sensitive file names of the zipped files. I finished the above in a couple of hours of hard work, obviously the testing continues.

I tested all of the above and I was able to have a working CiviCRM on 1&1 server host without having a custom php.ini or htaccess file since they don't allow changes to the required settings needed for CiviCRM. I only ran into one problem so far, still early in the testing process, but when I try to manage the Components under Joomla I get the dreaded "500 Internal Server Error" message. It seems it does not like the civicrm.xml to be so large. So, I edited the file and deleted all the files that started with civicrm/ and tested the access to the Installers/Components and it worked.

I searched the forums, I did not read the developers documentation, but I could not find if the file "civicrm.xml" is used anywhere else. So here are my questions:

Besides the installation of CiviCRM what other function does this file use ?
Do you see any issues with the process of developing locally and migrating to a hosting server once done? as mentioned above?
Supposedly 1&1 allocates only 20MB to each account, so have any of you used the client side, front end, of CiviCRM with only 20MB?

I will continue to test my installation on my hosting provider to make sure all features work, but any help is appreciated. I will report back here if I find any other issues with the installation on 1&1 servers or any part of the CiviCRM project I am working on.

You have a great product in CiviCRM and I really appreciate the work you guys put into it. Keep it up.

thank you in advance for your response,
Jose

Lobo, thank you for confirming and the quick response.

Jose