[Mediawiki-l] installation problem: ... cannot contact the databaseserver

[Terry Lalonde]

Sarcastic tone on ->  Thanks for the help!

Since I figured it out...I'll share. 

In this case the problem was the fact that I was using
PHP4.x.x and mysql4.1.10.  There is a basic incompatability
between the two in terms of password authentication.
I upgraded to PHP5 and everything worked.  The mysql client
within php4 used an older method of encryption(?). The
capability to use older style sql passwords exists via an 
"old_password" function, but that defeats the improved security.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-
> bounces at wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Terry Lalonde
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:09 PM
> To: mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] installation problem: ... cannot contact the
> databaseserver
> 
> 
> My log  page is attached below...The error message does not help me,
> maybe someone have seen it before.
> 
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> 
> Terry
> 
> 
> MediaWiki 1.3.11 installation
> 
> 
> Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation
> problems.
> 
> 
> Checking environment...
> 
> 
> *	PHP 4.3.10RC1: 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.
> *	No zlib support.
> *	Couldn't find GD library or ImageMagick; image thumbnailing
> disabled.
> *	Installation directory: /cad/local/Linux/apache2/htdocs/wiki
> *	Script URI path: /wiki
> *	Connected as root (automatic)
> *	Connected to database... 4.1.10; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements
> *	Database wikidb exists
> *	There are already MediaWiki tables in this database. Checking if
> updates are needed...
> 
> ...ipblocks is up to date.
> ...already have interwiki table
> ...indexes seem up to 20031107 standards
> ...have linkscc table.
> ...linkscc is up to date, or does not exist. Good.
> ...have hitcounter table.
> Converting links table to ID-ID...
> Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and
cannot
> contact the database server.
> 
> 
> 
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