From: Rob Church robchur@gmail.com

Ordinarily I'd bawl at you to upgrade PHP as being the easier route; this being a classic indicator of the old, "PHP's mySQL binaries are out of date with the new authentication in mySQL 5"...however as other applications are working, this might be a useless task...

Another reason why I don't think I need to go there is that phpMyAdmin 2.7.0-pl1 (latest) is working flawlessly. You'd think that would exercise the PHP-MySQL interface pretty thoroughly.

I went to Marc Liyanage's site, and it looks like he's got PHP 4.3.11, vs Apple-supplied 4.3.4. So I guess that might be my next step.

But I'm *REALLY* hoping someone will chip in and say "In LocalSettings.php, change $wgPhpMySQLInterface to 'mungo_jerry" or something similar. I haven't seen anything like that in the docs, though...

Rob Church

On 13/12/05, Jan Steinman Jan@bytesmiths.com wrote:

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Well, I touched the GRANT table for the MySQL user for this site, and re-loaded, and now it gets a bit further. Instead of a stack trace, I now get the following:

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Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.

Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.

(Can't contact the database server: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client (localhost))

Does this suggest anything?

Again, this site (www.EcoReality.org) was working fine with MySQL 4.0.16, and my other wikis that are at MW1.4 are working fine with MySQL 5.0.16.

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