Serendipity Forums

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:27 pm**

Hm, without that file "serendipity_config_local.inc.php" serendipity does not know that it is installed, and it should show you the installation panel? The file you mentioned is a different one.

Do you have phpMyAdmin installed? Many providers offer pre-installed versions to administrate your database...

Regard,s
Garvin

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:41 pm**

i'll have to check with textdrive to see if it's installed. i don't see it anywhere in my textdrive control panel.

thanks.

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:03 pm**

i just received a reply from textdrive support. it turns out that i DO have access to phpMyAdmin. what should i look for or edit there?

thanks for your help!

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:12 pm**

You should just try to connect to your database and see if a "serendipity_config" table exists?

And please double-check if you really don't have any "serendipity_config_local.inc.php" file. You should not be getting any database error without that file, since without that file s9y thinks it is not installed and would ask you for database setup instead of connecting without any input data.

Regards,
Garvin

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:16 pm**

thanks for all of your help, garvin. i'll double-check to insure i have the file.

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:20 pm**

i still don't see the "serendipity_config_local.inc.php" file, just a "serendipity_config.inc.php" file. would it be in the root of my blog or in another directory?

i did a reinstall of 0.9.1 to see if that would help just to see if the needed file would be there and, unfortunately, it is not. i must be looking in the wrong location.

-chad

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:25 pm**

here's a screenshot of what i'm seeing:

http://onegear.net/pics/screenshot.png

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:32 pm**

i just changed the timezone in the admin suite and now i get the "Database_Error". i checked in phpMyAdmin and i do have a proper database configured. it was working just fine until i made the change.

http://onegear.net/pics/database_error.png

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:42 pm**

Okay, your installation is definitely missing it's serendipity_config_local.inc.php

Now you just create this file manually with these contents:

Code: Select all

<?php
        $serendipity['versionInstalled']  = '0.9.1';
        $serendipity['dbName']            = 'serendipity';
        $serendipity['dbPrefix']          = 'serendipity_';
        $serendipity['dbHost']            = '127.0.0.1';
        $serendipity['dbUser']            = 'root';
        $serendipity['dbPass']            = '';
        $serendipity['dbType']            = 'mysql';
        $serendipity['dbPersistent']      = false;
?>

Please replace the correct DB credentials with the real ones.

After you've checked this, try to go to your s9y panel again and see if you can access it again.

I've had past reports where the config_local file was also deleted, which we could track back to a bad Firefox browser with some problematic extensions, that would cuase HTTP requests to be sent twice, instructing serendipity to first update the local config and then to delete it.

Whatever is was, something deleted that file.

Regards,
Garvin

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:46 pm**

thanks for all of your help, garvin. i'll get this working one way or the other. i've tried wordpress and textpattern and always seem to make my way back to serendipity.

thanks, again!

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:55 pm**

Tell me if you've got it worked out

Regards,
Garvin

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:20 am**

that did it!!! thank you for all of your help!!!

Serendipity Forums

Error in www.s9y.org