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Setting MageBridge offline through the database

The MageBridge extensions offer you a lot of different solutions, but sometimes you might make a mistake that renders your entire Joomla! site offline. You might be locked out of your Joomla! Administrator, or the entire Joomla! Administrator might be even unavailable. By setting MageBridge offline through the database, you might be able to restore your access to the Joomla! Administrator.

Setting the MageBridge component offline

There are numerous MageBridge plugins that might block your access to the Joomla! Administrator. But all of these plugins actually can be taken offline, when the bridge is set offline manually. This might save you time troubleshooting things. For instance, if you have configured MageBridge to authenticate backend users, while this does not work, this is a good solution for getting back in.

To modify the database, open up your database management tool (phpMyAdmin, the MySQL Administrator or perhaps the mysql command-line client), next open up your Joomla! database and execute the following query:

UPDATE `jos_magebridge_config` SET `value`=1 WHERE `name`='offline'

Note that you might need to change the jos_ table prefix depending on your database settings.

Unpublishing MageBridge plugins

If the problem is not that MageBridge functionality has stopped working, but that the actual MageBridge code is causing problems, a more rigorous step is to disable all MageBridge plugins in Joomla!. To do this, you will need the following MySQL query under Joomla! 1.6 or higher:

UPDATE `jos_extensions` SET `enabled`=0 WHERE `type` = 'plugin' AND `name` LIKE '%magebridge%'

Under Joomla! 1.5 you can use the following MySQL query:

UPDATE `jos_plugins` SET `published`=0 WHERE `element` LIKE '%magebridge%'

If this does not solve your problems, just post your question on the forums.