Issue:
Error: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1 unsupported file format
Resolution:
To solve this (and/or many issues) involving this type of error, I assumed the error to be generated from php. Well, it was to an extent. The sqlite pdo code offered the solution:
I researched the error by grep'ing the php source code and found the error string to come from php-5.1.4/ext/pdo_sqlite/sqlite/src/prepare.c, lines 265:278 :
/*
** file_format==1 Version 3.0.0.
** file_format==2 Version 3.1.3.
** file_format==3 Version 3.1.4.
**
** Version 3.0 can only use files with file_format==1. Version 3.1.3
** can read and write files with file_format==1 or file_format==2.
** Version 3.1.4 can read and write file formats 1, 2 and 3.
*/
if( meta[1]>3 ){
sqlite3BtreeCloseCursor(curMain);
sqlite3SetString(pzErrMsg, "unsupported file format", (char*)0);
return SQLITE_ERROR;
}
This is interesting as I am running SQLite version 3.3.5 which the databases were created in. I see that the SQLite PDO source in the php source is :
# cat ext/pdo_sqlite/sqlite/VERSION
3.2.8
My solution was then to find a version of sqlite that was =< 3.1.4. I found source for 3.1.3, compiled, recreated my database using that version (NOTE: the databases are unsupported between 3.1.x and 3.2.x versions of SQLite). Once I did this it worked.
Also as a side note, to get SQLite compiled as a PDO, I had to:
1) configure with
...
--enable-pdo=shared \
--with-sqlite=shared \
--with-pdo-sqlite=shared
--with-zlib
... \
'make && make install' if configure is successful.
2) Make sure the pdo libs were copied/installed to the correct directory. On my installation it was /usr/local/include/php/ext/pdo/
3) Make these changes in my php.ini:
- change ' extension_dir = "./" ' to ' extension_dir="/usr/local/include/php/ext/pdo/" '
- add/edit in this order:
extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_sqlite.so
extension=sqlite.so
4) test php with : 'php -m' at the command line and solve any issues from there. Mostly php.ini config issues. Also restart the http service!