The site has been down since the hosting server upgraded to PHP 5. I have finally took the time to research the problem and the solution. The error log contained "The PDO extension is required for this adapter but the extension is not loaded". the phpinfo showed --with-pdo-mysql=shared which led me to the conclusion that the PDO extension for mysql was in fact installed. What was missing was a couple of statements to get the extensions loaded.
The fix was to place these two lines in the php.ini file:
extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so
update - Found the site down again.
Warning: require_once(Zend/Loader.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/rongatew/public_html/index.php on line 2
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'Zend/Loader.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/rongatew/public_html/index.php on line 2
The fix involved the htaccess and php.ini, php.ini was missing and htaccess was a version older. Looked to be something our hosting provider may of done in an attempt to come back from some sort of backup. Repaired on Sep 21, 2008
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