Recovery from database only

[DaveEllison1]

For some unknown reason the public_html folder, all its contents, disappeared from our server, and the ISP has not been able to restore it. We had no back ups.

I have been trying to restore my CMS Made Simple site (created using "Hyacinth" 1.10.3) from the database alone. I backed up the data base to my local PC and then I installed v 1.11.1 "Baltra", using the same DB name (so presumably the old data was overwritten). The new installation showed the News items from the old site, but nothing else of the original. I then uploaded the backup, and I get the original home page (without any styling), but nothing else: no menus, or links to other pages.

When I go to admin, I see no pages of content at all, not even the home page.

Checking the data base in Notepad, I can see much of the content of the original site.

I installed using cpanelX; Apache version 2.2.22; PHP version 5.3.15; MySQL version 5.1.63-cll.

Any suggestions to recover the original?

Dave

[uniqu3]

For "unknown" reason i would change my host
Unless you did not care about your website for months or years, any half decent host should actually be able to restore your website at least for past month.

As i understand you still have original Database backup.
Now let's hope you know what CMSMS Version you had running.

If you know that, look in your Database for YOUR-DB-PREFIX_modules, where you will find Modules you had installed and their version.
Ignore core modules and go Download CMSMS (version you had originally installed) http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/project/files/6 and third party modules http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/project/list/module

Unpack and upload everything to your Server (where modules would belong to /modules folder).

After you are done, run CMSMS installer and on step 5 (or was it 6) untick last two options so your Database is not overwritten.

If all goes well you will have CMSMS running with information stored in Database.
Then if it is some older version upgrade to latest following this documentation http://docs.cmsmadesimple.org/upgrading

Then all that will be missing are images related to template you used, content images, files that editors uploaded and possibly plugins if there were some third party plugins in use.

Good luck

[DaveEllison1]

Thanks, great. The problem I was having was caused by my using the latest version of CMS; when I reverted to the old one, Hyacinth" 1.10.3, it worked.

Dave