[joomla] reconnect to mysql database
Paul Elliott
joomlanyc at upshotmagazine.com
Wed Oct 6 20:28:08 EDT 2010
The DB does have most of the content.
However, i browsed bak_users in phpadmin and didnt see any other than the super admin.
I did use the DB for the new install with sample data installed (the first time).
This site is on Lunarpages.
On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:18 PM, Scott Wolpow wrote:
> Paul,
> Does the old DB have any data?
> Or did you use it for the new install and choose the "install without sample data".
> If so I think you may have lost the data.
> Where do you host?
> Scott Wolpow
>
> On 10/6/2010 8:09 PM, Paul Elliott wrote:
>> The site was hacked and riddled with bad code that showed up on the front-end (the owner never changed their login info).
>> I proceeded to install a new instance with the latest version of Joomla (i did not throw away the old version).
>> I also set it up with the same mysql database.
>> When i opened the new install, i couldn't see any of the data in the admin or front-end.
>> Now that i am looking in phpadmin, i don't see any of his customers user info or any of his articles.
>>
>> On Oct 6, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Mark Simko wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> I'm browsing bak_users in phpadmin, all i see is the super admin.
>>>> When i first started working on this a few days ago, i did a new install and assigned it to the previous mysql database during install.
>>>> Could that have erased any of the data?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> There's the problem. Your tables are using bak_ as a prefix. Make sure
>>> that you set that in the configuration file. It's probably set to jos_.
>>>
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