https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1184450
Cheers,
Aaron
]]>Happy you found the error. I will add this to my personal database of problems<->solutions. Thanks for this.
Regards,
-dajan
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the problem was the database collation. It was set to utf16_general_ci and had to be changed to utf8_general_ci for it to work. I am slowly weaning myself off GUI tools but keep making new databases with phpmyadmin. On this new computer I am working with, for some reason the default collation is UTF16 when I choose UTF.
After I did a git clone (git clone git://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara.git ) and it still was not working I looked at the database a little more closely. Had I followed the instructions here https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Installing_Mahara a little more closely, I would have noticed that UTF8 is required.
Thanks again.
Dirk
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Sorry to hear about your connection problem. I know you are not novice in Mahara, but, as stupid it may seem to be, may I suggest to check your config.php once again. I would suggest to start with a fresh config.php form the git and edit it accordingly. Check you database name, username and password. At the first sight I would think that your config.php contains a typo error somewhere.
If this doesn't work, please come back here.
Regards,
-dajan
]]>on a local machine, the installer keeps asking for postgresql even though I set it to $cfg->dbtype = 'mysql5';
The error is below:
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