MySQL versions >= 4.1 use a new, more secure authentication protocol. Probably the version of PHP you are using does not support it.
Ah, here it is: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/password-hashing.html HTH, James Harvard At 1:18 pm -0600 29/1/06, Philip R. Thompson wrote: >I just installed MySQL5 and currently have PHP 4.3.11 installed. I >am wanting to connect to the mysql database on localhost, but I >get the following results: > >---------- ><? $link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'user', 'password'); ?> >"Client does not support authentication protocol requested by >server; consider upgrading MySQL client" >---------- > >Well, I have the lastest stable version of MySQL, so I did some more >research on what the problem might be. When I checked my >information for PHP using phpinfo(), it gave me the "Client API >version" for MySQL was 3.23.49. So, I'm thinking my version of PHP >cannot connect to my version of MySQL. I then considered if I >installed the MySQLi extension for PHP (supports versions of MySQL >> 4.1), would that help me? Or, if I just upgraded PHP to version 5, >would that help me? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
