I have a Joomla! installation on a remote site and I want to run it locally. I'm running Joomla! locally on a Mac through a standard MAMP installation:

• Joomla 1.5.12
• PHP 5.2.6
• MySQL 5.0.41
• Apache 2.0.59
• OS X 10.5.8

I've added a configuration file to the local Joomla! directory with all the correct local settings, database name, database user-name, database password etc. etc. I've tried a lot of different settings.

I've also recreated the remote database locally, ensuring everything copied correctly.

I followed a few different sets of instructions with roughly the same steps on how to do the migration.

All of the above has not worked for me; at best I get bits of text from the site rendered in the browser. Other times I get SQL errors.

What I want is for an already set up remote Joomla! installation to run on my own local machine.

Does anyone have any advice as to how to get this working, it'd be very much appreciated? Thanks.