500 - An error has occurred – DB function reports no errors when adding new article in Joomla

Question

I have an article that I want to publish on my Joomla! site. Every time I click apply or save. I get error 500 - An error has occurred! DB function reports no errors

Answer 1

Looking at your POST array, it looks like the body text of your post isn't being sent. This would suggest it's a problem on the front end. Can you check the name of the HTML element where you are typing the body text? If you could edit and show us the relevant parts of the HTML form that would help too.

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edit: ok, that article you linked to is almost 150,000 bytes, so it might be that it's choking on it. If this is a once-off article that you probably won't have to edit too much, I'd recommend putting in some dummy text and then going into your database using phpMyAdmin or something and editing the text in the jos_content table. The introtext and fulltext columns are defined as MEDIUMTEXT so they should be able to hold up to about 16MB without hassle.

If writing and/or editing articles of this size is something you'll be doing often (and hence, don't want to go into the DB each time), then perhaps you'll have to look at the maximum post size allowed.