[support] site down after i deactivated views via phpmyadmin

[jo]

thank you very much for your hints, now i am at least stuck at another point ;-)

i tried your option 1 (deleting all tables and restore) with no positive results.

then i tried option 2 (reinstalling drupal by replacing all files with fresh drupal 6.6 files and a databank-restore, but also there was the same 'site down' errorpage.

which i read again and remembered that it says i should have a look at settings.php.

so next thing i did was renaming the settings.php with uglysettings.php and renaming default.settings.php with settings.php, so i would use the default settings from a fresh install - now i really was able to see the drupal installation-page where now i have problems with the database-configuration-step:
 
with the name of my existing database and the user and password i enter in phpmyadmin to come in, drupal doesn't go to the next step, but also it doesn't create any errormessage, just all fields are empty again.
when i enter any adequate fantasy-names, it tells that this is the wrong password or username..why is that?

and what should i do now, especially in case i would love to avoid creating all nodes again - is there any possibility to recreate the nodes from the old database when i do a fresh-install and the backup is faulty?

:-jo




--- Victor Kane <victorkane at gmail.com> schrieb am Mi, 3.12.2008:

> Von: Victor Kane <victorkane at gmail.com>
> Betreff: Re: [support] site down after i deactivated views via phpmyadmin
> An: support at drupal.org
> Datum: Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2008, 11:05
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:31 AM, jo
> <joinkemel at yahoo.de> wrote:
> > dear list,
> >
> > as i am quite new to mysql-issues and the database, i
> don't know how to put my site to life again..
> >
> > as i had troubles with the installation of the
> views-module (all the other first 7 modules did install with
> no problems) i wanted to deactivate it.
> >
> > because i couldn't access my
> /admin/modules-frontend anymore, i used instructions on
> >
> > http://www.drupalcenter.de/handbuch/11551 (german
> language)
> >
> > to deactivate the views-module(s) in the database
> using phpmyadmin. (open phpmyadmin, select system, find the
> views-moulde-entries, deactivate it with setting status to
> 0)
> 
> Let's assume for the moment that the implementation of
> this advanced
> admin procedure did something wrong to the database, and
> that that
> left Drupal in an undefined state.
> 
> But a restore to the database should have left things as
> they were.
> 
> Try this:
> 
> 1. Drop all the tables in the database.
> 2. Then restore from last week.
> 
> If that doesn't work then something is amiss in the
> file system or on
> the server configuration. In that case, try a fresh Drupal
> install on
> the same database. If that works then restore again.
> 
> Victor Kane
> http://awebfactory.com.ar
> 
> >
> > after that, the site is down completely
> > (drupal error-site is showing "site down"
> > 'because of technical issues - please check your
> database settings in the settings.php file and ensure that
> your hosting provider's database server is running')
> >
> > so, what to do now?
> >
> > i already posted a forum-topic and followed the hint
> of one member with no results and even a complete
> confixx-restore with a backup of all files and the database
> i did one week ago when all was running well doesn't
> change anything.
> >
> > could it be, i should have taken the site down with my
> admin-frontend, before changing something in the database?
> >
> > thank you for reading anyhow
> >
> > :-jo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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