Robert Ingalls wrote: > I am trying to install mediawiki in Windows XP using the quick > installation guide. > > I have installed wamp with PHP version 5.3.0 > Apache version 2.2.11 > and MySQL version 5.1.36 > > It will not let me set a database user name and password. > > Here is the script. > PHP 5.3.0 installed > Found database drivers for: MySQL SQLite
> Database type: MySQL > Loading class: DatabaseMysql > 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. > Attempting to connect to database server as wikiuser...failed due to > authentication errors. Check passwords. > > I have gone to the suggested Sun website, but I cannot connect to > mysql from the shell because I have not set a password, and it will > not let me set a password. > > Any thoughts. wamp comes with php linked with mysql libraries incompatible with the mysql version they are providing? Would be quite a big error. Did you change anything regarding mysql? Like, copying a libmysql.dll you had elsewhere. Did you install previously mysql on that system? Perhaps there is an old copy of libmysql.dll lying at C:\windows or similar. If you don't have an account set up for mediwiki, choose the "Use root account" option. To connect from the command line mysql client, use "mysql -u root" However, you should upgrade the client, not follow the workarounds given at that page. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
