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#12709 MySQL Error 1074

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 19 June 2012 08:21 CDT

macallan
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? yes
Joomla! version: 2.5.5
PHP version: 5.3.1 (Local), 5.2.12 (Server)
MySQL version: 5.1.41 (Local), 4.1.22 (Server)
Host: Nativespace
Akeeba Backup version which took the backup: 3.5.2
Kickstart version used to extract the backup: 3.5.1

Description of my issue:
In order to upgrade my site from Joomla 1.5 to 2.5 I used Akeeba Backup for the live website, rebuilt the site on a local server, upgraded it there using SpUpgrade and was now trying to restore the upgraded website using Kickstart.
I'm getting the following error message:
Error at the line 76: CREATE TABLE `#__languages` ( `lang_id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `lang_code` char(7) NOT NULL, `title` varchar(50) NOT NULL, `title_native` varchar(50) NOT NULL, `sef` varch ... MySQL: MySQL query failed with error 1074 (Column length too big for column 'sitename' (max = 255); use BLOB or TEXT instead). The query was:CREATE TABLE `c26_languages` ( `lang_id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `lang_code` char(7) NOT NULL, `title` varchar(50) NOT NULL, `title_native` varchar(50) NOT NULL, `sef` varchar(50) NOT NULL, `image` varchar(50) NOT NULL, `description` varchar(512) NOT NULL, `metakey` text NOT NULL, `metadesc` text NOT NULL, `sitename` varchar(1024) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', `published` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `access` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `ordering` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', PRIMARY KEY (`lang_id`), UNIQUE KEY `idx_sef` (`sef`), UNIQUE KEY `idx_image` (`image`), UNIQUE KEY `idx_langcode` (`lang_code`), KEY `idx_access` (`access`), KEY `idx_ordering` (`ordering`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=2 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Joomla! 2.5 is not compatible with MySQL 4.1 (the link points to the Technical Requirements page on www.joomla.org). Obviously, you can't restore a Joomla! 2.5 backup on a server which doesn't meet Joomla! 2.5's minimum requirements.

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!

macallan
Thanks Nicholas!
I didn't even bother to check that - I just can't believe they are using such an old version. My bad....

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
At least you made support very easy since you gave me the necessary information. You wouldn't know how many times every day I have to guess this information when doing support :)

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!

macallan
Oh, I've done support jobs before so I have quite an idea what it can be like. :-(
However, thanks for your fast response.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You're welcome!

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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