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 PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. Session save path (c:/wamp/tmp) appears to be valid. PHP's memory_limit is 128M. Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator, APC or XCache; cannot use these for object caching. GNU diff3 not found. Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. Installation directory: C:\wamp\www\mediawiki-1.15.1 Script URI path: /mediawiki-1.15.1 Installing MediaWiki with php file extensions Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually. Generating configuration file...
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.
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.
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