[Mediawiki-l] [RE] problem with installation: upgrade mysql client [fixed]

[b h]

--- b h <bobhumphrey22 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble installing media wiki.  If I was
> to
> guess, I think it has to do with it not being
> compatible with the longer hashes used in new mysql
> authentication
> 
>
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/password-hashing.html
> 
> Here is my info:
> 
> PHP 5.0.2: 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. 
> Have zlib support; enabling output compression. 
> Turck MMCache not installed, can't use object
> caching
> functions 
> Couldn't find GD library or ImageMagick; image
> thumbnailing disabled. 
> Installation directory: E:\www\htdocs\wiki 
> Script URI path: /wiki 
> Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated
> with
> mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually. 
> MySQL error 1251: Client does not support
> authentication protocol requested by server;
> consider
> upgrading MySQL client
> 
> and then further down the page it says could not
> connect to database.
> 

so I found this: 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mediawiki-l&m=111017538816998&w=2
(sorry, took me a while to find a sane searching
archive...... might think about posting the MARC link
as opposed to those useless pipermail archives)

I do have mysql 4.1.7 and php 5.0.2

upgrading to php 5.0.4 fixed it.

sorry for the noise, should have looked harder first.
b






		
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