One of my Joomla installations seems to have died on me and all of a sudden redirects to /installation/index.php with a 500 internal server error message. What can I do to recover?
Damn. My configuration.php was missing. I am trying to re-create it (no backup) but I keep getting: Could not connect to the database server even though I have changed database, dbuser and password accordingly. could it be related to the $mosConfig_secret parameter?
I think joomla places another file in root dir of your installation. Not sure though. just an iDea mate, try it out. Or make a full backup and re-install joomla over it using another DB and change the config file after that.
as you say your configuration.php was missing... joomla/mambo check if configuration.php exists else it assumes it's a fresh install.. now you just need to make sure all the values are correct for server, user, dbname, host and dbprefix...
My server somehow f*** up while I was changing the global configuration resulting in an empty configuration file. Took me hours to fix
Hi, In the Root of ur site find the configuration.php-dist This is a backup copy of the original configuration.php. Just fill in the path etc etc andsave it as configuration.php Guess u already tried that though
Yeah I finally did. It was a rather new site but it got decent traffic already. I just hadn't put it in my backup scripts yet. Oh well. BTW: I have really come to hate Joomla. It is so inconsistent in the way it handles the content. By god, this will be the last site I did with that weird program. Back to Drupal for me.
if it's a new install, why dont you try deleting all files and start the installation from the beginning? i think there is missing file
Its not that new either. By new I mean compared to my other sites that have been around for a while Anyways, I learned my lessons about Joomla.