Nat Colley wrote: > Platonides,Sorry, I am just now seeing your response. I don't think it is a > write access problem anymore. > Since this is a wampserver stack I am using, I cross posted this at the > wampserver forum: > When setting up mediawiki, got this message: > > "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 [dev.mysql.com] for > help. > Attempting to connect to database server as wikidb_user...failed due to > authentication errors. Check passwords."
I doubt this is your problem, since you are using a server stack that cointains both apps. It would be very silly to create a package containing mysql and php, with php unable to connect to mysql. > If you follow the link you learn all about old and new passwords in MySQL > since 4.1. But when I look at what is in wampserver, they are all 5+ so i > shouldn't be having this problem at all. > Someone suggested searching for my.ini outside of the wamp folder, but that > came up empty. >So I don't think there is some stray old mysql out there causing me problems. >I created the wiki db and user myself in phpmyadmin, If you can connect from phpmyadmin, you shouldn't have those problems in mediawiki. > and the installation script was able to connect, Good. I assume that your php files are finally trated as such? >but then I got this same old libraries error message again. And no, mw is >definitely not installed. Which message is it? What's the output of MediaWiki installer? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
