I'm having trouble installing MediaWiki 1.5 on Windows with MySQL 4.1 and either PHP 4
or PHP 5.
MediaWiki config yields the following
* PHP is linked with old MySQL client libraries. If you are using a MySQL 4.1 server and
have problems connecting to the database, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help.
MySQL works and I've converted the root password to the old password format as per
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html but MediaWiki cannot connect. I'm
passing the correct root password through the MediaWiki config form.
I think part of this is a problem running MySQL 4 as a Windows service does not use the
old-passwords format. MySQL does not seem to recognize the old-passwords option in the
my.ini file (see my post to mysql forums
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,45694,45694#msg-45694)
I tried by I could not get apache 2/php 5 running because PHP failed loading the
php-mysqli.dll extension (I don't know why...), so I tried php 4.
Has anyone else gotten around this?
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