Fixing TYPOlight-error #145 – Table ‘./tl_search’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired

Eric Bartels — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:30:38 +0000

Today a website of a customer running with TYPOlight stopped working. The friendly “there is an error”-message appeared. Even the administration-backend was not working anymore.

Enabling the “display-error” setting revealed that there was a database-problem (perhaps due to a crash of mysql).

#145 - Table './tl_search' is marked as crashed and should be repaired

The problem was that I have no shell-access to the server of the hosting provider and no administrative-console for the database. So I built a little “repair-script” to fix this issue.

// Typolight table repair script
define('TL_ROOT', dirname(__FILE__));
 
// Load the configuration
require_once('system/config/localconfig.php');
 
$con = mysql_connect($GLOBALS['TL_CONFIG']['dbHost'],
  $GLOBALS['TL_CONFIG']['dbUser'],
  $GLOBALS['TL_CONFIG']['dbPass']);
mysql_select_db($GLOBALS['TL_CONFIG']['dbDatabase'], $con);
 
// Repair table
$result = mysql_query("REPAIR TABLE tl_search", $con);
var_dump(mysql_fetch_array($result));
 
mysql_close($con);

Its placed where the “front-controller” (index.php) resides and after executing it via browser the problem is gone and the website is up and running again.

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Fixing TYPOlight-error #145 – Table ‘./tl_search’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired