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[joomla] reconnect to mysql database

Scott Wolpow scott at wolpow.com
Wed Oct 6 20:45:01 EDT 2010


How about the jos_ tables?
SW

On 10/6/2010 8:28 PM, Paul Elliott wrote:
> 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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