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elbirth
15th of February 2007 (Thu), 21:46
Earlier today I was doing a clean install of 1.5 RC4 (long story short, my old host got hosed and I never took the time to get a gallery back up since I didn't ever back it up).

After the install, I checked to be sure everything looked ok- it did. I uploaded a few photos just to make sure the upload/resize process was working. Once I knew it was fully working, I used the backup option in the menu and backed it up to a file and saved that.

I upgraded to 2.0 and followed Pekka's instructions on making the existing pictures show up, et al.

I ran the Install Check option and almost everything checked out, except a couple. In the File Function Test Suite section, I got this error:
15. ERROR: unable to connect to test ftp server ftp.funet.fi (server not responding in 5 seconds)
server: ftp.funet.fi

that's not even an FTP server I inputted, so I'm not sure how to change that- I don't see the options for it in the FTP section anywhere.
I also got a warning about my PHP maxtime being low, which shouldn't be an issue, I don't think (it's at 30 seconds).

I was going to upgrade further to 2.02, but when I tried to use the backup function, I got the following error:
Unable to connect to the selected database server at this time
PLEASE PRESS REFRESH ON YOUR BROWSER TO TRY AGAIN.

It gave suggestions about why I might have gotten the error and at the bottom had this:
Server: localhost
Access denied for user 'dbuser'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

I'm thinking that that login/pass info is what my problem is, but I never set that anywhere during installation (the actual database login info I set works fine otherwise).

Does anyone know where to edit that or otherwise how I can get things working? I really want to get 2.02 setup so I can start back building my gallery. I know this is a little long, but I'm trying to be as thorough as I can to help you guys help me.

Thanks!

MikeCaine
16th of February 2007 (Fri), 03:26
Re the backup, you need to configure admin/backup/ee_backup_prefs/preferences.php

jeronimo
16th of February 2007 (Fri), 08:19
that should do the trick for shure :)

If you have a problem still (like I did). You first defragmentate en clear the overhead, en trie again.

elbirth
16th of February 2007 (Fri), 09:00
Thanks!!

I edited that preferences file and that did the trick! I'm now able to go into the backup utility and it successfully performed a backup.

And thanks for the mention of defragging it as well, that may come in handy later. I actually did that earlier and cleared up about 185KB, so I didn't have to do it again when making the change.