Joomla message: Site unavailable

Up until Joomla 1.0.12 during installations you might get this message:

My first reaction was -OMG, have i done something wrong? what does it mean?

The number following the message indicates a database problem. For example:

Error 1 = FATAL ERROR: MySQL support not available.
Joomla! attempts to talk with mySQL on the server and fails; maybe because the server does not have mySQL installed at all or maybe it is not configured correctly.

Error 2 = FATAL ERROR: Connection to database server failed.
SQL is installed but for some reason we cannot login to mySQL (this is where it tries the host, username, password stuff) – may indicate that these details are wrong in your config.

Error 3 = FATAL ERROR: Database not found
You can connect to mySQL but not to a the specific database you’re going for.

In 1.0.12, those codes were replaced with text as defined in english.php.

    define( '_SYSERR1', 'The database adapter is not available' );
    define( '_SYSERR2', 'Could not connect to the database server' );
    define( '_SYSERR3', 'Could not connect to the database' );

{Thanks, Toubkal}

Posted in May 13th, 2008 by Busyboo |