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A PHP blog software
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Install of 2.5 leads to type error, MySQLi, Hoster: Limacity #822

Open Flip1 opened 9 months ago

Flip1 commented 9 months ago

I've tried installing 2.5 on an empty webspace. The installation (easy option) was aborted with the following error:

Uncaught TypeError: mysqli_query(): Argument #1 ($mysql) must be of type mysqli, null given include/db/mysqli.inc.php Zeile 66

Backtrace

0 include/db/mysqli.inc.php(66): mysqli_query(NULL, 'SELECT * FROM s...')

1 include/admin/installer.inc.php(325): serendipity_db_query('SELECT * FROM s...', false, 'both', false, false, false, true)

2 serendipity_admin.php(260): require('/home/webpages/...')

3 {main}

Hoster: Limacity Version of MySQL or MariaDB is: 8.0.34-26

garvinhicking commented 9 months ago

Sadly we have no proper error reporting in place at this point where a database connection fails.

What happens is that probably your database credentials or hostname are wrong; PHP cannot connect to the server with the data you entered. Can you verify you use the right database name and port?

@onli - we should address a proper error reporting here, our serendipity_db_connect() doesn't do any of that :-O

Flip1 commented 9 months ago

Yes, I'm sorry, it was my mistake. The installation was now successful. But yes, this error message is really meaningless and could be improved.