How to restore the online version of your SiteBuilder Pro site

Procédure

If the content present in the SiteBuilder Pro editor no longer matches the version currently visible on the Internet, it is possible to retrieve the latest published version of your site and restore it in the editor.

At each publication, SiteBuilder Pro keeps on the hosting the files needed to reconstruct the project as it was at the time of that publication. This procedure therefore makes it possible to return exactly to that published version.

1. Retrieve the files from the published version

Go to the file manager of the hosting on which your SiteBuilder Pro site is published.

Open the folder containing your site files (on cpanel for example it will be the public_html folder, on lws panel it will be the htdocs)

Then look for the folder:

sitepro

Open it. You should notably find the following two folders there:

• dat
• gallery

These two folders contain the data allowing SiteBuilder Pro to reconstruct the project corresponding to the site’s latest publication.

Select the dat and gallery folders, then use the file manager compression function to create an archive in ZIP format.

The name given to the ZIP file does not matter.

Then download this ZIP file to your computer.

2. Restore this version in SiteBuilder Pro

Now open your site in SiteBuilder Pro.

In the editor:

1. Open the Publish menu.
   
2. Click Backup/Restore.
3. Open the Restore tab.
   
4. Click Browse.
   
5. Select the ZIP file containing the dat and gallery folders.
6. Click Restore.

SiteBuilder Pro then loads into the editor the project that corresponded to your site at the time of its last publication.

Check the restoration

Browse the different pages in SiteBuilder Pro and compare them with your site currently accessible online.

Check in particular:

• the texts;
• the images;
• the pages and their organization;
• the menus;
• the elements added before the last publication.

If the content displayed in the editor matches the site currently online, the restoration was successful.

What happens after restoration?

Restoration puts the published version back into the SiteBuilder Pro editor. You can then modify it normally.

The site already accessible on the Internet does not need to be republished just to perform this recovery. However, after making new changes in SiteBuilder Pro, you will need to use the Publish button to make them visible online.

Common issues

I cannot find the sitepro folder

Make sure you are looking in the folder where the SiteBuilder Pro site is published.

The path may vary depending on your hosting and domain configuration. The sitepro folder is normally located in the directory containing the published site files.

SiteBuilder Pro refuses my ZIP file

Check the archive structure.

The dat and gallery folders must be located directly in the ZIP file. For example:

my-site.zip > dat
my-site.zip > gallery

The following structure is not correct:

my-site.zip > my-folder > dat
my-site.zip > my-folder > gallery

Recreate the archive by directly selecting the dat and gallery folders.

The restored version does not contain my latest changes

This procedure restores only the version present at the last publication.

If some changes had been made in SiteBuilder Pro but had never been published, they are not present in the online site files and therefore cannot be recovered with this method.

My online site is correct, but my editor is not anymore

This is precisely the case in which this restoration is useful. As long as the correct version is still published on your hosting and the dat and gallery folders are present in the sitepro folder, you can use them to put this version back into the editor.