I’ve set up a couple of MODx sites over the years. Two of these sites are with the same hosting provider. The first one was a 0.9.6 site with the following problem: every now and then, the system events log would fill up with parser errors. Hundreds of pages of these errors:
« MODx Parse Error »
MODx encountered the following error while attempting to parse the requested resource:
« PHP Parse Error »
PHP error debug
Error: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Unknown MySQL server host 'x.x.nl' (2)
Error type/ Nr.: Warning - 2
File: /home/blah/manager/includes/extenders/dbapi.mysql.class.inc.php
Line: 89
Line 89 source: if (!$this->conn = ($persist ? mysql_pconnect($host, $uid, $pwd) : mysql_connect($host, $uid, $pwd, true))) {
The second site is running MODx 1.0.4. This one gets these errors as well, but not as many. (I think the older MODx versions would get into a nearly endless loop of error messages trying to insert the error into the database - could that be true?)
Anyway. I discussed this with the hosting provider. I’m not a back-end developer, but to me this sounds like sometimes the database isn’t accessible, right? However, the hosting provider says they’ve been checking their MySQL error logs and they can’t find anything.
Does anyone here understand what’s going on? I still feel it’s something the provider should fix, but am I right? I’m worried because I’m afraid every error message represents a visitor to the site receiving a blank page.
Any insights would be greatly appreciated!
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