Robert Ingalls wrote:
I am trying to install mediawiki in Windows XP using the quick installation guide.
I have installed wamp with PHP version 5.3.0 Apache version 2.2.11 and MySQL version 5.1.36
It will not let me set a database user name and password.
Here is the script. PHP 5.3.0 installed Found database drivers for: MySQL SQLite
Database type: MySQL Loading class: DatabaseMysql PHP is linked with old MySQL client libraries. If you are using a MySQL 4.1 server and have problems connecting to the database, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help. Attempting to connect to database server as wikiuser...failed due to authentication errors. Check passwords.
I have gone to the suggested Sun website, but I cannot connect to mysql from the shell because I have not set a password, and it will not let me set a password.
Any thoughts.
wamp comes with php linked with mysql libraries incompatible with the mysql version they are providing? Would be quite a big error.
Did you change anything regarding mysql? Like, copying a libmysql.dll you had elsewhere. Did you install previously mysql on that system? Perhaps there is an old copy of libmysql.dll lying at C:\windows or similar.
If you don't have an account set up for mediwiki, choose the "Use root account" option. To connect from the command line mysql client, use "mysql -u root" However, you should upgrade the client, not follow the workarounds given at that page.