Hello,
I am trying to install Mahara to add a social networking element to MOODLE. I am trying to follow the steps on the Mahara website: http://www.mahara.org/wiki/En/Sysadmin_Guide/Installing_Mahara. I should add that I have shared hosting through www.siteground.com. I've gotten through step 4, but when I try to go to the webpage to install it (step 5), I get the following message:
Mahara could not connect to the application database.
* If you are using Mahara, please wait a minute and try again
* If you are the administrator, please check your database settings and make sure your database is available
The error received was:
postgres7 error: [-1: Database connection failed] in CONNECT(localhost, '', '****', )
Does anyone know what this means or how to fix it? I do not have much experience trying to install applications on servers.
Thank you for your help.
Jason Bedell
I tried putting the name of the database, the usernam, and the password in config.php, but it yielded this error:
postgres7 error: [-1: Database connection failed] in CONNECT(localhost, 'createdb', '****', U)
postgres7 error: [-1: Database connection failed] in CONNECT(localhost, 'createdb', '****', U)
Sorry to make you all a part of my 6 hour saga, but now that I seem to have fixed the database problem, and installed Mahara, I get this error:
[ENV] ac You have dangerous PHP settings, magic_quotes_gpc is on. Mahara is trying to work around this, but you should really fix it.
Does anyone know how to turn off magic_quotes_gpc?
[ENV] ac You have dangerous PHP settings, magic_quotes_gpc is on. Mahara is trying to work around this, but you should really fix it.
Does anyone know how to turn off magic_quotes_gpc?
Alright, the tech support people at siteground (they only communicate slowly by email) turned off magic_quotes_gpc. Now, when I try to login or register some, I get the following on a white screen:
Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0
Has anyone gotten this to work properly?
Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0
Has anyone gotten this to work properly?
Yes I have had it working. I had a few problems also, but stick with it, it is well worth a few hours of hair pulling... it really is a great application!
As someone else suggested I would take this up in the forums at mahara.org
Once you have Mahara installed and working this document will help you integrate moodle / mahara:
https://eduforge.org/docman/view.php/176/3200/Mahoodle.pdf
Jeremy
As someone else suggested I would take this up in the forums at mahara.org
Once you have Mahara installed and working this document will help you integrate moodle / mahara:
https://eduforge.org/docman/view.php/176/3200/Mahoodle.pdf
Jeremy
Just a thought... have you checked or asked in the support forum over at mahara.org? I've always found the guys over there to be really helpful and, after all, this *is* the Moodle help forum 
hi Jason,
have you been sucessful with your attempt trying to install mahara at siteground?
please let me know, because i also tried a lot and got a lot of database problems
at the end error massages like this:
***
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/web2ler/public_html/mahara/config.php on line 94
108
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/web2ler/public_html/mahara/config.php on line 122
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/web2ler/public_html/mahara/config.php on line 95
***
mahara and moodle would be such a great connection!
there is also an intiative in
Moodle & Mahara ->> Mahoodle
http://ewiesion.com/moodle19dev/
with some document about this topic!
godd luck!
heiko idensen
have you been sucessful with your attempt trying to install mahara at siteground?
please let me know, because i also tried a lot and got a lot of database problems
at the end error massages like this:
***
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/web2ler/public_html/mahara/config.php on line 94
108
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/web2ler/public_html/mahara/config.php on line 122
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/web2ler/public_html/mahara/config.php on line 95
***
mahara and moodle would be such a great connection!
there is also an intiative in
Moodle & Mahara ->> Mahoodle
http://ewiesion.com/moodle19dev/
with some document about this topic!
godd luck!
heiko idensen