Mail issue

iraj

Hey, beginner Flarum user here,

Basically, I was setting up mail settings through the admin page on my forum, accidentally left mail driver space blank, and saved changes. Now, when I try to access the forum, I get this error:

Error booting Flarum: Too few arguments to function Illuminate\Support\Manager::createDriver(), 0 passed in /var/www/html/vendor/illuminate/support/Manager.php on line 88 and exactly 1 expected

So now I can't access mail settings (or anything else on the forum) to fix it through the UI.
How can I access my mail configuration now to set the driver and fix the error?

Thanks in advance.

jordanjay29

Through the database itself (usually via phpmyadmin or a similar tool). Check out the settings table for the mail_driver field.

iraj

jordanjay29 thanks, I viewed the settings table, but this is all that was in it:

I know nothing about MySQL so this may be an obvious mistake...

tankerkiller125

iraj use SELECT * FROM settings; to get a list of the data, you'll need to run an UPDATE query to change the correct value, if you're using PHPMyAdmin you should be able to list the data in a table and modify it directly in the table.

iraj

tankerkiller125 thank you, I see the mail_driver field now, but when I run
UPDATE settings SET mail_driver = 'smtp';, I get this error:
ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column 'mail_driver' in 'field list'

Again, probably an obvious mistake, but do you know what I could be doing wrong?

tankerkiller125

iraj You'll need to run a command like

UPDATE settings SET value=smtp WHERE setting=mail_driver;

Please note that value and setting are column names, I don't remember what the column names are so please use the correct ones.

iraj

@jordanjay29 @tankerkiller125 thank you, it's fixed now 😅