Question Really don't understand these errors

I have no idea what may be causing this, but I do have some suggestions how to track it down.

First you should enable debug mode in Joomla. That should tell you what goes wrong (you SHOULD get Joomla error page telling the details). I like to get copy of that message to see, if there's a real bug.

Whatever the reason was, go to kunena backend and try to save the configuration. Did it help to fix the problem?

Also: you should use Kunena 1.5.3 as it fixes many bugs in K1.0.10. There will be service release for K1.0 soon, but while K1.5.3 introduces some new bugs, it works better in J1.5.

I will get you the debug log. As for upgrading, I can not do these upgrades on this site as soon or often as updates come out due to using the BYOS JACL product since we use a detailed permissions system. So I have everything WORKING fine right now, its live, members are in and out, all is well. BUT I CANT MAKE IT RUN ON ANOTHER FOLDER, and if I want to TEST, or evaluate, or make a backup, this problem comes up and its very concerning.


Something odd here... note, all I do on the windows server is copy the folder of the existing database and paste it somewhere else as a new folder then rename it. This is how I have always done it. I just went to look at the copy of the database on the site that has these issues and see no jos_fb_config.

Its there in the original, but not in the copy! What the heck? WHY?

Heres some error info from debug:






500 - JDatabaseMySQL::query: 1146 - Table 'dads3.jos_fb_config' doesn't exist SQL=SELECT * FROM jos_fb_config

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4. you have no access to this page
5. The requested resource was not found.
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JDatabaseMySQL::query: 1146 - Table 'dads3.jos_fb_config' doesn't exist SQL=SELECT * FROM jos_fb_config

Call stack
# Function Location
1 JSite->render() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\index.php:79
2 JDocumentHTML->render() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\includes\application.php:171
3 JDocumentHTML->_parseTemplate() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\libraries\joomla\document\html\html.php:249
4 JDocumentHTML->getBuffer() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\libraries\joomla\document\html\html.php:386
5 JDocumentRendererModules->render() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\libraries\joomla\document\html\html.php:190
6 JDocumentRendererModule->render() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\libraries\joomla\document\html\renderer\modules.php:41
7 JModuleHelper->renderModule() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\libraries\joomla\document\html\renderer\module.php:89
8 require() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\libraries\joomla\application\module\helper.php:173
9 require_once() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\modules\mod_kunenalatest\mod_kunenalatest.php:5
10 CKunenaConfig->CKunenaConfig() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\modules\mod_kunenalatest\helper.php:12
11 CKunenaConfigBase->load() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\components\com_kunena\lib\kunena.config.class.php:378
12 database->loadObject() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\components\com_kunena\lib\kunena.config.class.php:213
13 JDatabaseMySQL->query() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\plugins\system\legacy\mysql.php:48
14 JError->raiseError() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\libraries\joomla\database\database\mysql.php:231
15 JError->raise() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\libraries\joomla\error\error.php:171
16 JException->__construct() C:\xampp\htdocs\dads3\libraries\joomla\error\error.php:136

Hoping to generate a few more looks to this and hopefully get some ideas.

To recap. On my windows servers I click the live database, choose copy and paste. I then rename that database to some backup name and go to the backup directory of a copy of the main joomla site and edit the config file to look at the new db so we can test, backup, etc.

I've always done this on joomla sites.

I go to look at the backup DATABASE in phpmyadmin and notice I have 102 tables, the original has 104 tables.

The two missing tables are:

jos_fb_config
jos_fb_config_backup

This is why I am getting the errors shown above. These tables seem to be missing, but somehow they might still be there.

SO, I tried to dump the jos_fb_config & jos_fb_config_backup tables from the main DB and import them into the backup DB and get the following error:

Table structure for table `jos_fb_config`
--
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `jos_fb_config` ;

MySQL said: Documentation
#1051 - Unknown table 'jos_fb_config'

If I go to the folder on the server where the backup DB is stored I see two files there called jos_fb_config.frm & jos_fb_config_backup.frm but I dont see the tables listed when I browse the tables in phpmyadmin!

FIRST OFF... Why are the tables: jos_fb_config & jos_fb_config_backup NOT BEING COPIED OVER?

SECOND... Why Can't I import them into the backup DB from the original DB if supposedly they are not there!?


Im going to try and get some help where ever I can on the internet bit since this is the kunena forum hopefully someone with more experience can shed some light!

UPDATE:

In the back up DB folder I deleted the files, jos_fb_config.frm & jos_fb_config_backup.frm and then clicked to import these two tables I originally exported from the main DB. Now I get no errors on import and the backup site came alive.

THE QUESTION STILL REMAINS: Why during a copy of the original DB is there some issue with the tables jos_fb_config & jos_fb_config_backup being copied successfully?