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#11995 akkeba installation impossible : Too big column length for column...

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Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 15 April 2012 08:16 CDT

Sunday, 15 April 2012 03:46 CDT

erix
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Description of my issue:

 adishatz, erix

www.agerix.fr

Sunday, 15 April 2012 05:37 CDT

nicholas
Bonjour Eric,

You are using a MySQL version older than 5.0.47 or your database's collation is not utf8_general_ci. In both cases, this won't allow Akeeba Backup to be installed on your site.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Sunday, 15 April 2012 08:13 CDT

erix
Hi Nicholas,

I apologize because you are right and I didn't check the version of MySQL. Thx for your answer and have a nice sunday

Eric

 adishatz, erix

www.agerix.fr

Sunday, 15 April 2012 08:16 CDT

nicholas
You're welcome, Eric! It had been a long while since I last saw that kind of error message. Good thing I still remembered what was causing that :D Have a nice Sunday!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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