Strange SQL occurrence last night.

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:07 am

Hey,

I'm putting up a new site and... well, let me walk you through what happened.

I installed PHP-Nuke 7.3 with no problems.

Installed Chatserve's 73Patched files, still no problem.

Installed the Sec-Fix_73, this could be where I screwed up.

I didn't check the nuke to confirm operation, I just went straight into the Sentinel 1.2 install. CHMODed the files and went to run the install. Upon clicking the install the "There's a problem with the SQL server, we'll be back shortly" message thingy came up. Needless to say it never came back up. I have other websites running on the same server (different databases, but same server) and they still worked. It was just this nuke.

I've deleted everything and I'm back to the virgin PHP-Nuke 7.3 and want to install the patches and Sentinel before going too much further. Does anything ring a bell? Are there known conflicts somewhere that I should be prepared for?

Is there anything off the top of your head that could have disabled my database?

Thanks in advance,

Dan

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Go through the steps again, 1 by 1, and test after each one. That message is from nuke and should only occur when communication with the database server is having problems. It could indicate the server was rebooting or down, or the server was there but the database was not, or the config.php settings were in error.

Or, it might have meant that the moon was in the seventh house, Jupiter was aligned with Mars, and peace will guide the nations. This will only happen if Six is still running around naked on that stupid tractor though, so let's hope it was the server Wink

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:40 am

First of all, please confirm that the steps where administered in the right order... in terms of the 73Pacthed files and then the Sec-fix_73.

Secondly, you said...

Quote:

That message is from nuke and should only occur when communication with the database server is having problems. It could indicate the server was rebooting or down, or the server was there but the database was not, or the config.php settings were in error.

That's what was odd about the entire thing. If the server was rebooting then none of my sites would have worked, I know because I've been there before.

The database was there, in fact in order to test the database issue I first tried to repair the database, which had no effect. I then dropped the database and reinstalled the entire thing, still no change.

The config.php settings where accurate. The nuke worked well through the first two steps and no change to the config.php had been made.

I'm going to run through it again this morning but it was strange how it just stopped communicating.

Thanks for the info Raven.

Peace!

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:49 am

The sec fixes may be in the patched series, but even so it should not cause a problem. Just check after each step. Add Sentinel as the last item, assuming the others work.

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:56 am

Okay, thanks.

I'll let you know how it turns out.

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 8:56 am

Okay, it was late and I was sleepy. Smile

There is a config.php file in the Sec-fix_73. So I overwrote my configured config.php with the new one which had not been configured and BAM... no more website.

Sorry for the alarm. I didn't remember that happening last night but obviously it did.

Thanks.

Dan

Regular Joined: Jun 02, 2004 Posts: 88

lol I did the same thing......