On Nov 12, 2004, at 9:56 AM, Christian_Lair@i2.com wrote:
I'm installing MediaWiki for the first time. I ran into some problems with the install in which I had to set the MySQL root account to use the old password authentication method. I seem to have fixed that problem, but now I'm running into this:
If you only altered the root account, the newly created user for the wiki will still be created with the new authentication method and things will immediately fail.
The correct fix is to recompile PHP against the updated MySQL 4.1 libraries. You might also be able to set the MySQL server to use the old authentication method for _all_ users all the time, but I haven't tested this.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)