Joomla 3.2 installation error: Table usergroups doesn't exist

Question

I have a problem - after fresh installation of Joomla 3.2, I get the following error from the web-based interactive automatic installation script:

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 'USING BTREE ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8' at line 11 SQL=CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS j32_usergroups ( id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT COMMENT 'Primary Key', parent_id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 COMMENT 'Adjacency List Reference Id', lft int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 COMMENT 'Nested set lft.', rgt int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 COMMENT 'Nested set rgt.', title varchar(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', PRIMARY KEY (id), UNIQUE KEY idx_usergroup_parent_title_lookup (parent_id,title), KEY idx_usergroup_title_lookup (title), KEY idx_usergroup_adjacency_lookup (parent_id), KEY idx_usergroup_nested_set_lookup (lft,rgt) USING BTREE ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8

Table 'mydb_8.j32_usergroups' doesn't exist SQL=INSERT INTO j32_usergroups (id, parent_id, lft, rgt, title) VALUES (1, 0, 1, 18, 'Public'), (2, 1, 8, 15, 'Registered'), (3, 2, 9, 14, 'Author'), (4, 3, 10, 13, 'Editor'), (5, 4, 11, 12, 'Publisher'), (6, 1, 4, 7, 'Manager'), (7, 6, 5, 6, 'Administrator'), (8, 1, 16, 17, 'Super Users'), (9, 1, 2, 3, 'Guest')

Seems that the installation script failed to create the table. Surprisingly, these problems were present in the version 1.x too (as I found by google). I haven't found any solution besides some hacking of the installation script. One of most used CMS must be installable in some cleaner way than this, I hope!!

My setup:

• database type: MySQLi
• host name: localhost
• table prefix: j32_

There are other tables in the db but no tables beginning with j32.

PHP Version 5.4.4-14+deb7u7, MySQL 5.0.51a-24+lenny5

Answer 1

If you have a look at the Joomla Requirements for Joomla 3.x, you will see that the minimum MySQL version required is 5.1, and on your localhost, you're using 5.0.51a. So I would start by updating MySQL. Also ensure that you have InnoDB support as this is also required.