[Mediawiki-l] install problem

[Jim Hu]

Never mind... I think it was the right combination of cleaning out  
the user and db tables, changing things, and flushing privileges, and  
now it worked.

JH

On Mar 21, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Jim Hu wrote:

> I know I've encountered and gotten past this before, but the previous
> fixes aren't working for me.
> Installing 1.9.3 on Mac OSX 10.4 server
> I think he install fails when it hands over mysql from root to
> wikiuser.  Reloading, the installer starts to update and the error is:
>
> Deleting old default messages...DB connection error: Unknown error
> (dimer.local)
>
> This is related to Apple's annoying practice of making localhost not
> work as a hostname for mysql.  In the past, I just went into mysql
> and changed the host in the user and db tables.  I must be forgetting
> something.
>
> Jim
>
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> 2128 TAMU
> Texas A&M Univ.
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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054