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Unfortunately, after three days struggling (and failing) to get access to the Administrator panel, I've decided that whatever is preventing me from having a fully functioning Joomla experience is simply beyond my ability to resolve (and anyone else's since none of the ka-billion suggestions from the web were effective). 

Can anyone tell me if there is a process for completely uninstalling Joomla or is it just a matter of deleting the htdocs subfolder I extracted the zipfile to?

Thanks!! 

Sorry to hear that it is not working out. If you have installed Joomla, deleting the files/directories and tables is enough to completely erase all traces of Joomla.

And delete the database.

A lot of people can't delete their own database at their host. If this is the case, and there are not other things in your database than Joomla, then it will be possible. Thanks for pointing that out.

Hi guys

I'm at my wits end from this also... I want to reinstall Joomla because it's not working (I made a few silly errors and botched the installation)... unfortunately I can't uninstall it, and reinstall it... when I open up the site on the local host, I get a message saying removeInstallation installationRemoved - and that's all... I've deleted my initial database, and removed the folder from the directory...

I'm using windows XP with a WAMP server... (I know, I know, I should really switch to Linux)

Why don't you make a new folder and a new database and start totally fresh with a new download.

that's exactly what I did... and it's still giving me the same problem...

I had to do a system restore during this time, because of an unrelated issue, and this is what caused the problem - it rolled back to a few days back when I didn't have wamp and Joomla installed... I also had to reinstall wamp as a result of this... no matter what I do with Joomla now, it won't work...

pretty frustrating...

If you are getting "remove installation directory" you have done the installation. All you need to do is go and remove the installation folder. Have you tried that?

when i put the joomla folder in the correct directory and rename it to 'test', or whatever, I get the following message:

"PLEASE REMEMBER TO COMPLETELY
REMOVE THE INSTALLATION DIRECTORY.
You will not be able to proceed beyond this point until the installation directory has been removed. This is a security feature of Joomla!.
Click here when the directory has been removed."

I then removed the installation folder, and continued... I got the following message:

"Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to database"

this to me suggests that it's looking for a database which isn't there and which I've already removed... but it won't allow me reinstall... I can't think of a solution for this...

apologies for my noobness... thanks for the assistance

I also attempted to create a database called 'test' and it still wouldn't work...

ok, another update.... I recreated a database by the name of 'joomla' which is what I originally did when installing the first time, and i'm getting the following message:

jtablesession::Store Failed
DB function failed with error number 1146
Table 'joomla.jos_session' doesn't exist SQL=INSERT INTO `jos_session` ( `session_id`,`time`,`username`,`gid`,`guest`,`client_id` ) VALUES ( 'pkd34nlh7210m3b346bumac8c1','1216584979','','0','1','0' )

this obviously means that the database which I originally created with the joomla install is now missing, and I have to somehow recreate it, but I still can't reinstall it...

Do you have access to phpMyAdmin? If you are on local host with wamp you should have that.
Go there and delete all the databases you have tried so far.
Create a new blank database. Make sure if it utf8_general_ci for collation.

I did that, and now i'm getting this error... I think this one is important actually... from what I gather, it's telling me that I need a table called jos_session with the parameters mentioned... i'm just worried that I'll mess something up again...

jtablesession::Store Failed
DB function failed with error number 1146
Table 'joomla.jos_session' doesn't exist SQL=INSERT INTO `jos_session` ( `session_id`,`time`,`username`,`gid`,`guest`,`client_id` ) VALUES ( 'n9ndll44bh3a1hf6i5tktfv9h4','1216592919','','0','1','0' )

I've been fiddling with creating tables now, and have run into some more problems, mainly because I've no idea whether I should be using time/timestamp/datetime/varchar/int for the various fields...

I REALLY just need all the joomla databases... maybe I could migrate them from a file??... could anyone volunteer to help me with this??

it's ok... I got it sorted... I rolled back again with a restore and just wiped everything and restarted... it worked this time... thanks

Did you check your database using eg. phpMyAdmin?

I have seen in various cases that the tables have been renamed from eg. jos__session to #__session

Then just rename your tables.

well, i had already deleted the database... that's the problem - sorted now though... thanks

Hello to all,

I'm also experiencing a major problem on my latest Joomla installation (version 1.5, running on a Windows Plesk server at web hoster www.ovh.com) :
http://www.tradonline-italia.it
=> some "wise guy" apparently hacked my first page, I don't how to proceed, here's what they wrote : Hacked By Dr-Red1 <> best wishs to 3atiya and all moroccans
=> I tried accessing my administrator page but the password has apparently been changed.

2 questions :
-> Is joomla really secure ? This isn't the first time that I've had this problem because a friend of mine also had his front page hacked a few months back although his password was really secure
-> How can I "unhack" my site since I can't access the administration panel ? Should I un-install joomla completely ?

Thanks for your help.
Mathieu Marechal

If you have phpMyAdmin you can reset the password like this:

Browse the jos_users table and edit the administrator account.
Enter admin in the password field, select MD5 from the dropdown list on the left and hit return

Login using password admin, change it straight away!

More info: viewtopic.php?f=431&t=287347&p=1388544&hilit=reset+password#p1388544

There's also a web video for resetting your admin password, You can find it here: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1818492yRNhWTdg#search

Hi to all,
I also have a problem in Joomla. I have installed everything, but when I login on the administrator site and go on tabs on the top of site (Site, Menu, Content, Components, Extensions...), there is no a pop-up menu. For example, when I go with cursor on tab Extensions, there should be a pop-up menu with options Install/Uninstall, Template Manager..., but there is no one for me.
Can anyone tell me what could be the problem....
Thanks in advance

Hi Folks, first post. I also have an uninstall question, but only because I am going to reinstall. I installed, and after a few noob hiccups which were resolved by reading this forum, got everything working. I love Joomla. Editing my web page is now a pleasure!

Anyway, when I installed, i untarred the file directly onto my server, thinking it would create a "joomla" folder in /var/www. It didn't. It just put all the files into the /var/www seperately. What I should have done is create the joomla folder first and then untar it into there. I am running Ubuntu.

It doesn't actually effect the working of joomla, but it does offend my sense of order, and I am thinking it may cause problems if i want to run another site on the same server later.

I am going to reinstall the correct way. Am I right in thinking I can just identify all the joomla files and folders in /var/www and delete them and then start again. I just want to confirm this as it is a production server and running lots of other critical stuff as well.

I am also thinking that if i leave the data base as is, then I should be able to reinstall and my page should be more or less intact when i re-install. Is this correct? Thank you in advance, cheers, Jonnyxx.

just answering my own from above. Yes, i did just delete the relevant files from the /var/www directory, and then when I did a re-install, identified the existing database and all was well. Then When i installed another instance of joomla i put that into it's own folder (website 2) Both are running fine now. Cheers.

Why the hell don't they make an easy way to uninstall this thing. It's obnoxious on their part.

I removed everything from /var/www/html and dropped the database with all the data. I then copied all the files and folders again into the directory and when I went to http://localhsot/ it said to remove the installation folder.

This is a clean install and I removed everything previously yet it thinks that I have gone through the web based installation process. I think Joomla writes something somewhere else. So to do a clean uninstall or remove you may have to do something else other than just deleting everthing in the html directory and deleting your database.

Anyone knows what else is required to do a clean re-install on a localhost (I have a clean centOS server just for this)

Thanks.

KK

I'm not getting the problem with uninstall, just delete the files and the data base. No magic.

KK,

You need to have Apache, MySQL and PHP installed. then you're set. You should be able to go to apache friends and get an all in one set up.

Then you just install Joomla the same way you would on a remote host. Unzip the files and browse to the web folder.

Hi MCSMOM,

I had everything installed. I have my own server running xen. The slice that I am tried to install joomla was a CENTOS 5.3 LAMP stack. It is linux so I did not need anything from apache friends.
Everything was running which I checked with following commands:

[root@xen2 ~]# service mysqld status
mysqld (pid 1628) is running...
[root@xen2 ~]# service httpd status
httpd (pid 1788 1787 1786 1785 1784 1783 1782 1781 1719) is running...
[root@xen2 ~]# rpm -q php
php-5.1.6-23.2.el5_3

The problem was with permissions and ownerships of the directory. I have since successfully resolved it and everything is working fine now.

Thanks,

KK