[Mediawiki-l] Installation fails

[Andrew Wagg]

I turned on mysql logging in /etc/my.cnf. It appears that an old version 
of the mysql client is being used by php. The password authentication 
changed in later releases.

The solution was to add old_password to /etc/my.cnf so the old 
authentication mechanism was used whilst the wikiuser was being created 
and to change this back after.

Thanks