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 c) Check: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Running_MediaWiki_on_Gentoo_Linux - this page is a little out of date. If you use PHP5, you don't need mod_php (well I didn't)... HTH, ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gentoooo-hooo!! == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
