On Dec 3, 2004, at 5:05 AM, Rik Serpentier wrote:
As complete newbie to MediaWiki I have some trouble setting up the software on a Apple PB G4, OS X 10.3.6, php 4.3.4 and MySQL 4.1.7
Unless you really know you need it for some reason, I strongly recommend you use MySQL 4.0.20 instead. 4.1 is *not* fully backwards-compatible.
For details and possible workarounds see: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Old_client.html
If you must use MySQL 4.1, you can recompile PHP from source and make sure you compile it against the updated MySQL client libraries (eg, --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql). You can see what version of the client libraries are linked in by making a script that looks like this:
<?php phpinfo() ?>
There will be a section in the output on the mysql module, which will include a client version number. If this is not 4.1.x, you're going to have problems with a 4.1.x server. At the top of the output also will be the configure options you can use to replicate the configuration on a newly compiled PHP.
If you're not willing to recompile PHP (I recommend doing so anyway as 4.3.4 is a bit old and there are both bug fixes and security fixes in more recent versions: the current 4.3 version of PHP is 4.3.9) and you must use MySQL 4.1.x, you can try to set it up in the backwards-compatible password mode. See details at the link above.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)