[Mediawiki-l] Re: MySql 4.1 and MediaWiki Installion

[Jonah Bossewitch]

I had to look this up the other day -

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Old_client.html

g'luck

/Jonah


Projet OOQCB wrote:
> 
>    Hello ,
> 
> 
> I got this while installing mediawiki :
> 
> 
>    Checking environment...
> 
>    * PHP 4.3.8: ok
>    * PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs
>      (index.php/Page_Title)
>    * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
>    * PHP's memory_limit is 8M. *If this is too low, installation may
>      fail!* Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok.
>    * No zlib support.
>    * Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be
>      enabled if you enable uploads.
>    * Installation directory: /home/PROJETOOQCB/public_html/WIKI/mediawiki
>    * Script URI path: /~PROJETOOQCB/WIKI/mediawiki
>    * MySQL error 1251: Client does not support authentication protocol
>      requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client
> 
> Something's not quite right yet; make sure everything below is filled 
> out correctly.
> 
> 
> It seems that MySql change the way password are stored.
> What can I do? Come back to MySql 4.0 ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Francois Colonna