When using the Cloud Admin to set the root userid, this password is only set for root@% not root@localhost [and presumably not root@127.0.0.1]
When connecting remotely by ip address, you can use the root password since the % matches. When connecting from a deployed Google App Instance, the root user cannot use the password that was set since it checks against root@localhost instead of %. Updating the password for root@localhost through the remote mysql connection allows internal access. Slightly problematic is the instance naming convention: /cloudsql/overnumerousness-site:joomla In the Joomla CMS, and many other traditional open source apps, the database connection info is generally stored as host:port:socket and a simple explode call on the string yields all 3 variables: host port socket So a simple configuration for Cloud SQL would be: ::/cloudsql/overnumerousness-site:joomla But when passed through a brain dead explode, this means the database name[the :joomla part] is lost. For Joomla, it is using regular expressions to handle ip4, ip6, and a bunch of other oddball configs. There the format would be: localhost:/cloudsql/overnumerousness-site:joomla and it would determine whether to use the second half as a port or a socket based on whether it was a number or a string - but again it is still losing te :joomla so it will fail. If it is possible to use a different seperator in the socket string, ie /cloudsql/overnumerousness-site__joomla then PHP apps using the colon as a break indicator will work with fewer changes. Since Joomla! uses lazy class loading/autoloading by default for all it's classes - and since GAE allows for a running initialization scripts before executing the traditional scripts, I found it relatively easy to fix by adding a modified mysqli database class for Joomla! and making sure the directory it is in will be checked before the Joomla! classes so it will override it. https://github.com/garyamort/joomla-gae/tree/overnumerousness So I think this issue is mostly just a minor nit, there is an easy workaround. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
