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modx 1.0.5
WAMP
Windows XP SP 3
Apache 2.2.17
MySQL 5.5.8
PHP 5.3.5
Firefox 3.6.13
I found this problem in the forums from a few years ago for previous releases of modx, but none of the suggestions there seemed to help.
I get through the add database part just fine, and all the checks performed come out OK, but when I click "install" I get the following error:
MODx setup couldn’t install/alter some tables inside the selected database.
This is followed by several pages of SQL errors, of which I will post the first few:
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The following errors had occurred during installation
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ’TYPE=MyISAM COMMENT=’Contains data about active users.’’ at line 9 during the execution of SQL statement CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `mcc_active_users` ( `internalKey` int(9) NOT NULL default ’0’, `username` varchar(50) NOT NULL default ’’, `lasthit` int(20) NOT NULL default ’0’, `id` int(10) default NULL, `action` varchar(10) NOT NULL default ’’, `ip` varchar(20) NOT NULL default ’’, PRIMARY KEY (`internalKey`) ) TYPE=MyISAM COMMENT=’Contains data about active users.’.
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ’Type=MyISAM COMMENT=’Categories to be used snippets,tv,chunks, etc’’ at line 5 during the execution of SQL statement CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `mcc_categories` ( `id` integer NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `category` varchar(45) NOT NULL DEFAULT ’’, PRIMARY KEY(`id`) ) Type=MyISAM COMMENT=’Categories to be used snippets,tv,chunks, etc’.You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ’TYPE=MyISAM COMMENT=’Contains data used for access permissions.’’ at line 8 during the execution of SQL statement CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `mcc_document_groups` ( `id` int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment, `document_group` int(10) NOT NULL default ’0’, `document` int(10) NOT NULL default ’0’, PRIMARY KEY (`id`), KEY `document` (document), KEY `document_group` (document_group) ) TYPE=MyISAM COMMENT=’Contains data used for access permissions.’.
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As I say, there are several pages of these errors. I’ve tried re-starting from scratch a few times, but nothing so far has made a difference.
All databases are English only (some previous instances of this problem appeared to be language related) and the account through which I am connecting has full privileges to everything.
Any suggestions?
Many thanks,
- Dave
This is a known issue with the combination of MySQL 5.5.8 and PHP 5.3.4+
Some googling shows that it extends beyond MODX.
Another user recently posted this as well
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=60114.0
Are you able to change your MySQL version?
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Re: change MySQL version.
Possibly, but not easily... I installed it as part of the over all WAMP installation but I’ll see what I can find out about re-installing just the database component. Thanks for the information!
- Dave
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Re: different version of MySQL
I was able to find an earlier version of MySQL (5.1.41) and that has indeed fixed the problem!
Thank you very much for the help... saved me many hours of frustration!
- Dave
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I had the same error with the following config:
PHP Version 5.2.17
MySQL Server: 5.5.8
MySQL Client: 5.0.51a
PDO Driver for MySQL: 5.0.51a
MODx 1.0.5
IIS6
Win 2003
Managed to fix it by moding the install/setup.sql replacing TYPE=MyISAM with ENGINE=MyISAM
I don’t know if this will give me issues later but appears to work ok at the mo.
Only tried that as that’s what appears in the database backup output.
Regards
Keith
That won’t make any difference at all; it’s just that the different versions of MySQL require the different wording.
The docs for version 5.0 say the TYPE keyword is supported as a synonym for backwards compatibility, but the 5.1 and 5.5 docs don’t mention TYPE at all.
As of 5.5.5 the default engine was changed from MyISAM to InnoDB. Something to keep in mind when creating a new database on 5.5.5 or greater.
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Do you know if this default MySQL change from MyISAM to InnoDB is related to the installation problem? If so, what is the likely way forward from this point? Presumably people won’t have the option to stay on earlier releases of MySQL forever... for example, I’m doing my development right now on a local WAMP installation, but when I go to port it to our Web hosting service I will not have control over which version of MySQL they have installed, and I’m guessing they will be staying fairly current.
- Dave
MODX Staff
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Had same problem, and basicly what we can do for the moment is to changed 3 sql files:
