Joomla message: Site unavailable
Up until Joomla 1.0.12 during installations you might get this message:
This site is temporarily unavailable.
Please notify the System Administrator
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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}
