--- b h bobhumphrey22@yahoo.com wrote:

I'm having trouble installing media wiki. If I was to guess, I think it has to do with it not being compatible with the longer hashes used in new mysql authentication

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/password-hashing.html

Here is my info:

PHP 5.0.2: ok PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. PHP is configured with no memory_limit. Have zlib support; enabling output compression. Turck MMCache not installed, can't use object caching functions Couldn't find GD library or ImageMagick; image thumbnailing disabled. Installation directory: E:\www\htdocs\wiki Script URI path: /wiki Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually. MySQL error 1251: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

and then further down the page it says could not connect to database.

so I found this: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mediawiki-l&m=111017538816998&w=2 (sorry, took me a while to find a sane searching archive...... might think about posting the MARC link as opposed to those useless pipermail archives)

I do have mysql 4.1.7 and php 5.0.2

upgrading to php 5.0.4 fixed it.

sorry for the noise, should have looked harder first. b

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