[support] whoops! Changed settings.php and now get redirectedto "Database Configuration" page.

[Neil: esl-lounge.com]

OK, sorry to have bothered the mailing list with my noob stoopidity....as 
Jason so rightly said, I overwrote my old settings.php with the default one, 
without the db settings/password, etc.

I will leave it to the mailing list to decide my punishment.

:-(


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Flatt" <drupal at oadaeh.net>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [support] whoops! Changed settings.php and now get redirectedto 
"Database Configuration" page.


> On Saturday 21 July 2007 05:39:28 Neil: esl-lounge.com wrote:
>> I'm having one of those dreaded "can't get into my own site" moments!
>>
>> I altered the cookie lifetime in settings.php from 2000000 to 900, opened
>> ftp, uploaded
>>
>> .....and now I get redirected to this URL every time:
>>
>> http://www.mysite.com/install.php?profile=default
>>
>> looking on the drupal.org forum, it seems as though permissions may be my
>> problem. At the moment, it is 644.
>
> If it is truly a permissions problem (though I don't recall seeing this
> behavior for that problem), then set the file to read-only for owner and
> group and nothing for other.
>
>> I just made a comparison between my
>> settings.php and the currently settings.php in the 5.1 tar and the only
>> difference is the cookie length, so I'm stumped.
>
> Shouldn't the $db_url be different also? Or did you create a database 
> using
> Drupal's default settings?
>
>> anyone had this problem?
>
> No.
>
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