If using mySQL 4.1, you want to upgrade to PHP 5 and enable the php_mysql.dll module (see php.ini) and tweak the other settings relating to mySQL, prior to running a small script containing the following:

<?php phpinfo() ?>

Check to see if this script outputs any mention of mySQL; when it does, all should function correctly. mySQL 4.1 does not seem to like older versions of PHP.

Rob Church

On 21/09/05, David J. Biesack David.Biesack@sas.com wrote:

I'm having trouble installing MediaWiki 1.5 on Windows with MySQL 4.1 and either PHP 4 or PHP 5.

MediaWiki config yields the following

• 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.

MySQL works and I've converted the root password to the old password format as per http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html but MediaWiki cannot connect. I'm passing the correct root password through the MediaWiki config form.

I think part of this is a problem running MySQL 4 as a Windows service does not use the old-passwords format. MySQL does not seem to recognize the old-passwords option in the my.ini file (see my post to mysql forums http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,45694,45694#msg-45694)

I tried by I could not get apache 2/php 5 running because PHP failed loading the php-mysqli.dll extension (I don't know why...), so I tried php 4.

Has anyone else gotten around this?

-- David J. Biesack SAS Institute Inc. (919) 531-7771 SAS Campus Drive http://www.sas.com Cary, NC 27513

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