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Cloufish

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Registered: 2023-02-26

Posts: 2

How to I reset settings from initial wizard configuration?

I've written the wrong data in the initial install wizard in "Database Connection Setup"
in the first input, I thought it was asking me to choose between MySQL OR MariaDB, so I specified my option **and that was my mistake!**
(I'd really want to post the screenshots but the links don't paste here o.O)

I then changed

config/config_db.php :

to the line

public $dbhost = 'localhost'

just like the documentation specified -> /glpi-install.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install/wizard.html

But I didn't fixed the issue, and now it gives me error of:
It's giving me the error:

PHP Warning (2): mysqli::real_connect(): (HY000/2002): No such file or directory in /var/www/html/glpi/src/DBmysql.php at line 250

I still don't know **why the documentation only mentions MySQL?** If the form tells me that I can choose also MariaDB?

So these are my questions:
1. How to reset configuration to factory defaults
2. How to specify MariaDB Database in the initial wizard

Last edited by Cloufish (2023-02-26 21:43:58)

Cloufish

Member

Registered: 2023-02-26

Posts: 2

Re: How to I reset settings from initial wizard configuration?

1. I figured I can reset it only by deleting the existing /gpli directory and un-archiving the new gpli[...].tar

2. Okay so then I figured that it doesn't matter whether I use MariaDB or MySQL, usually MariaDB still uses mysqli directory, am I right?

So the new problems i had:
1. setting localhost as the documentation specified also resulted in an error during configuration xD
I mean... my database lives in /var/lib/mysql  <- and If I try to input that I also receive an error that the directory is not found

So only when I type "MariaDB" it lets me continue, but then later it crashes in the "Initialization of the Database"

What am I missing?

EDIT: OKAY SOLVED I'M SO SORRY!..
So it didn't crashed during this initialization stage - it just took really long.
Everything works now - so specifying "MariaDB" is correct - even though documentation says otherwise...

Last edited by Cloufish (2023-02-26 22:05:02)