None of that has anything to do with my problem. I am able to access both the UniServer and the Joomla installation via browsing to either http://localhost/ and http://localhost/joomla/ or http://127.0.0.1/ and http://127.0.0.1/joomla/ in Firefox. As well, my C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts is already set to "127.0.0.1 localhost" with both of these lines commented out by default; "#127.0.0.1 localhost" & "#::1 localhost" I have since deleted the entire UniServer and then completed a clean install using Nano 5.7.4. In this install, I created my new MySQL database but used a new MySQL user instead of ROOT but did not grant global access, only granting full database privileges. Upon getting to the Joomla Database Configuration screen, I used the following settings. - Database Type: mySQL - Host Name: 127.0.0.1 - Username: user01 - Password: open4me - Database Name: user01 Now I get a completely different error upon configuration submission.
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to
use near 'TYPE=MyISAM CHARACTER SET `utf8`' at line 29 SQL=CREATE TABLE `jos_banner` ( `bid` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`cid` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`type` varchar(30) NOT NULL default 'banner',
`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
`alias` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
`imptotal` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`impmade` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`clicks` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`imageurl` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
`clickurl` varchar(200) NOT NULL default '',
`date` datetime default NULL,
`showBanner` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
`checked_out` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
`checked_out_time` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`editor` varchar(50) default NULL, `custombannercode` text,
`catid` INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
`description` TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
`sticky` TINYINT(1) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
`ordering` INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
`publish_up` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`publish_down` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`tags` TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
`params` TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
PRIMARY KEY (`bid`),
KEY `viewbanner` (`showBanner`),
INDEX `idx_banner_catid`(`catid`) ) TYPE=MyISAM CHARACTER SET `utf8`
I searched some more and found information about V55_Joomla_1_5_15a.exe buried in an older announcements post. I then tried the Uniform Server Joomla plugin as listed on the Uniform Server 5.5-Nano, Released Announcements page. Upon using this plugin, I'm able to have a working Joomla. So, what gives?! Why is it that it seems that Joomla can be setup to run on the UniServer but we can't actually do so ourselves?