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I asked this on mediawiki-l some time ago, but wasn't clear enough I guess, so here it goes again:
When setting up MediaWiki 1.5alpha2, I get
... # Granting user permissions... Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server.
It shows the same behaviour for MySQL 4.1 running on either Windows or Linux. On the Windows box, it recently killed the working MediaWiki 1.4 by trashing the MySQL wikiuser permissions.
Unless I'm messing something up big time here, this looks like a serious bug. I remember the version before alpha2 to work in that regard, so it is likely something that was introduced since then.
Any ideas?
Magnus
Magnus Manske wrote:
# Granting user permissions... Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server.
It shows the same behaviour for MySQL 4.1 running on either Windows or Linux. On the Windows box, it recently killed the working MediaWiki 1.4 by trashing the MySQL wikiuser permissions.
There's a section in the RELEASE-NOTES about compatiblity problems with MySQL 4.1's changes to the authentication protocol if your PHP is linked against older MySQL client libraries (as most distributions are). This has a link to a page on MySQL's web site about the topic.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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