Ric de France: > Hi Sergio, > > On 4/22/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then I got the error "Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some > > technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server". > > As far I can understand, this happens because of the new password > > algorithm in mysql 4.1+, so I've remerged dev-lang/php with the > > "mysqli" flag, but I still get the same error. > > From what I remember, I think I got something similar to you... > what I think I did was: > a) Start up mysql - something like: /etc/init.d/mysql start > b) Check to see if the encryption level you're using is correct - > Mediawiki was written in an older version of PHP, and does not use > the same authentication as the latest and greatest of mysql. In > /etc/mysql/my.cnf add the line "old_passwords" to the file in the > "[mysqld]" section... it seemed to make it work... > c) Check: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Running_MediaWiki_on_Gentoo_Lin >ux - this page is a little out of date. If you use PHP5, you don't > need mod_php (well I didn't)...
Thanks! As soon as possibile, I'll give Mediawiki another try ;-) Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
