Garvin,

Are there any extra arguments that need to be passed to mysqldump when backing up the database to ensure it is usable? I have backed it up but want to be sure of it.

regards

Johno

Garvin,

I have no objections to giving you access, but I'll have to ask first. Also I need an address to send the details. Thanks again for your assistance, I do greatly appreciate it.

Johno

Garvin,

sorry about the delay over Easter.

I ran the latest script, which has updated the config as shown by your formatted query script:

[15] => Array
(
[0] => right_publish
[name] => right_publish
[1] => true
[value] => true
[2] => 2
[authorid] => 2
)

[16] => Array
(
[0] => no ...

Garvin, here's the output from the latest script.

Is it the last set of values that is hiding the configuration?

Johno

Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => blogTitle
[name] => blogTitle
[1] => Councillor blog
[value] => Councillor blog
[2] => 2
[authorid] => 2
)

[1] => Array
(
[0 ...

Garvin,

Ok, here's the output:


Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => steve [realname] => steve [1] => steve [username] => steve [2] => d192e88f76e612f114c668d38b4ad9c9 [password] => d192e88f76e612f114c668d38b4ad9c9 [3] => 2 [authorid] => 2 [4] => 0 [mail_comments] => 0 [5] => 0 [mail_trackbacks] => 0 [6 ...

Hi Garvin,

the same line is still throwing an error, so similar I made sure I hadn't actually copied the wrong file:


Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/httpd/html/socialistpartyaustralia/council/serendipity/recovery3.php on line 12

Would it be simpler to pass in these ...

Garvin,

Unfortunately the script returns a parse error as follows

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/httpd/html/socialistpartyaustralia/council/serendipity/recovery2.php on line 12

I simply copied it directly to a text editor, so I don't think I inadvertently changed ...

I did set the username to the appropriate value.

As the are only the lost admin account and the author account I have been using are the only ones I used the first generalised version.

Phpmyadmin does not appear to be available on the server(at least under the names phpmyadmin and phpMyAdmin ...

Sorry Garvin, to get shirty

I can only do as I have internet access(Australia is a bit backward in that regard), and in between various other undertakings.

Anyway, I ran the modified script you supplied, with still no joy - nothing has changed

Any suggestions

Johno

Garvin,

thanks for your advice, which seems to have worked, but not with the outcome I had hoped for. I put the file recovery.php onto the server and ran it from a browser. I then went to the administrative page and successfully logged in as Steve, who is now acknowledged as an administrator in the ...

Sorry for my ignorance.

It seems that the serendipity administrator password is lost. Gone overseas with the original installer of the blog

Given that situation is there any way, with the the db password, which I do have, that I can establish an administrator account and get the site functional ...

I've just been to the admin page again, but the sections you mention aren't present - ie the administartion tab and the embedding etc. There are many tab I have seen in screen shots on the net which are not there(and not in the page source in the first posting). - I have atta Screenshot.jpg ched a ...

Garvin,

thankyou for your informative reply.

I'll follow your suggestions - doing things the simple way. I'm not in the long run responsible for this site, which is run essentially by a volunteer or two who can't be expected to have 'professional programming skills', even if I have them myself ...

I apologize for the length of this post

As a favour, I agreed to help in upgrading a local political reps blogs which had been using ancient blogware to current versions after security on the old versions had been compromised and they had been taken offline by the server webmaster. This involved a ...