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Broken site - mysql authentication failed?

Thursday 22 September 2005 3:53:20 am - 1 reply

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Cefn Hoile

Thursday 22 September 2005 7:55:49 am

OK, I couldn't work out how to do it manually, but went through the following procedure which worked OK in the end.

index.php will take you through a setup sequence if you change CheckValidity in settings/override/site.ini.append to true.

This will then recreate the original interactive setup session when you next visit index.php and this sesson will prompt you for mysql mail and admin account information.

To get the site to function again I had to choose the same templating settings (in my case the 'forum' template), and this process then ended up writing mysql username and password information into settings/siteaccess/forum and settings/siteaccess/forum_admin
in files called site.ini.append.php

I suppose this was where the original values were, and could potentially have been edited, but I couldn't find that at the time - assumed it would be in some sitewide config.

One key thing to remember is to choose not to add any capabilities when you configure it, and to ask it to preserve data without adding any.

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