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.