[Xerte] Re: MySQL plugin FEDERATED is disabled

[KnowledgeWare]

Hello David:

 

I get this when trying to connect via PHP MyAdmin:

 

phpMyAdmin - Error

Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP
and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.

 

The windows event log shows the only error:  Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
The MySQL service is running, I've stopped and started it, and rebooted the
server.

 

I also made the error of calling the www.mysql.com people, who are now
having the license people contact me. I thought this was a free database???


RonM2 :- (

 

 

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Goodwin
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 11:38 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: MySQL plugin FEDERATED is disabled

 

 

On 27 Apr 2012, at 19:07, KnowledgeWare wrote:





I'm unable to access the toolkits 1.5 management interface on a Windows 2008
R2 server today - just get a blank screen where I would normally get the
list of courses, create a new course, etc. My suspicion is the MySQL
connection is broken.

 

In the Windows event log I have a MySQL error: Plugin 'FEDERATED' is
disabled.  The MySQL service is running, however.

 

I'm not a MySQL person and not sure how to deal with this. Some googling
indicates a firewall exception is needed after a Windows update, I'm looking
into that.

 

Has anyone else run into this?

 

 

 

I think the message about the federated plugin being disabled is a red
herring - you would be using either InnoDB or MyISAM - which are different.

 

Are you able to connect to the database locally using any of the MySQL
management tools you get ?

 

(Were you on linux, I'd say run 'mysql -u root -pblahblahblah database_name
' to test a connection).

 

thanks

David.

 

 

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