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Table 's9yauthors' doesn't exist

Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:56 am
by hyperorbiter
eeek! what do i do? i've just got a blank and disabled blog! all the other tables are there in phpadmin, so i was wondering if i should just recreate the table? if so, what are the fields i need to create?

thanks

Re: Table 's9yauthors' doesn't exist

Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 11:00 am
by garvinhicking
Hi!

Is the whole table gone and removed? How could that happen, did you contact your provider?

Serendipity doesn't drop this table anywhere in code!

You'll need to recreate the table with a structure like this:

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CREATE TABLE `serendipity_authors` (
  `realname` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  `username` varchar(20) default NULL,
  `password` varchar(32) default NULL,
  `authorid` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `mail_comments` int(1) default '1',
  `mail_trackbacks` int(1) default '1',
  `email` varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
  `userlevel` int(4) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
  `right_publish` int(1) default '1',
  PRIMARY KEY  (`authorid`)
) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=167 ;

-- 
-- Dumping data for table `serendipity_authors`
-- 

INSERT INTO `serendipity_authors` (`realname`, `username`, `password`, `authorid`, `mail_comments`, `mail_trackbacks`, `email`, `userlevel`, `right_publish`) VALUES 
('John Doe', 'John Doe', '674f33841e2309ffdd24c85dc3b999de', 1, 1, 1, 'john@example.com', 255, 1);
Of course you'll need to recreate each author you previously had. But it should also be important for you to find out how this happened!

Regards,
Garvin

how it happened:

Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 11:55 am
by hyperorbiter
i was mucking around with mambo and deleted some tables in phpadmin...i must have clicked on it accidentally. operator error.
thanks for the info, i'll let you know how it goes.

thanks, you really are fantastic support.

stu

Re: how it happened:

Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 12:13 pm
by garvinhicking
You're welcome :) Good luck! :)

Regards,
Garvin

blog up, but i'm locked out

Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 12:13 pm
by hyperorbiter
hi garvin,

the blog is up now (whew!), but i can't log in.
i've tried a number of different ideas in the fields : 'username' and 'password' but to no avail...any ideas how to get in as administrator again?

stu

Re: blog up, but i'm locked out

Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 1:27 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!

You must store the password in serendipity_authors MD5() encoded!

REgards,
Garvin

all better now

Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 11:33 pm
by hyperorbiter
thanks mate. all better...

your patience astounds me!

stu

Re: all better now

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:20 am
by garvinhicking
You're welcome, have fun! :))

Best regards,
Garvin