id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
22853	Hyperdb redirects to wp-admin/install.php with no read servers up	archon810		"Hi folks. Apologies if the dev team doesn't consider [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hyperdb/ HyperDB] core WP (I do, since it's used by Wordpress.com and is developed by core WP people).

Either way, I also filed this [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperdb-redirects-to-wp-admininstallphp-with-no-read-servers-up here], though none of the developers seem to be active on that support forum (hence this bug report to bring attention to it). If you choose to close this bug here, I at least appreciate if at least one of the core devs takes a look at the above url and comments there (matt, andy, ryan, mdawaffe, vnsavage).



I'm enabling hyperdb on a high-traffic website but during my testing found pretty shocking behavior in my opinion when a certain situation occurs.

Basically, when all db read servers are down, rather than showing the standard ""Error establishing a database connection"" page as you would expect, anyone visiting the site is immediately redirected to wp-admin/install.php. No matter if you're logged in or not, that's where you end up.

I kind of understand why it happens, but I'm terrified to think that rather than get a descriptive DB error page, users will be instead directed to a page that shows up during the very first WP install. Moreover, I'm not sure what would happen if they got to that page and the read server came back up in the meantime, then they submitted the form.

Is there a way to get hyperdb to error out when no read servers are available instead of having users deal with this unfriendly and potentially dangerous behavior?

To test, just set all read servers to 0 in the config or just shut down mysql on the hosts with read > 0."	defect (bug)	closed	normal		Database	3.4.2	major	wontfix		admin@…