Hi

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.

it's on win2000, but that might be irrelevant. Since this release (stable 1.4.4) was downloaded today, I would think it would include the support. I'm not sure what else the problem could be.

here is a portion (edited for privacy and length) mysql> select * from user; +-----------+------+-------------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+ | Host | User | Password | Select_priv | Insert_priv | Update_priv | Delete_priv | Create_priv | +-----------+------+-------------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+ | localhost | root | *6MYLONGHASHVALUEISHERE | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | +-----------+------+-------------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+

sorry if I've missed something simple. any help appreciated.

thanks b

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