Eww…php on windows…thats horrible…anyway…
are you using ‘localhost’ as the server address? check to see what the IP is or URI and change it to that. Make sure your DB user has the correct permissions. Thats all I can think of right now.
1. Which server, did you upload? Remote or local server?
2. Which FTP clients are you using?
What are you using for the location of the db in the wp-config.php file? You maybe that 1% who can’t use localhost for whatever reason.
I am in the same boat. IIS6 on Win2003, PHP 4.4 and MySQL 4.1.2 (I just downgraded from 5.016). I get the same error. I have tried everything I can imagine. I am specifying the DB Server name (although I should not have to). I added a call to get the DB error – this is what it is:
Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client
I am not sure what this means. I have tried several ideas on the MySQL website, but none of them help. I am not sure if this is the PHP client or something in WordPress or what.
I have installed Toad for MySQL and have no issues connecting to the database from a remote host with it.
Brad
I am in the same boat. IIS6 on Win2003, PHP 4.4 and MySQL 4.1.2 (I just downgraded from 5.016). I get the same error. I have tried everything I can imagine. I am specifying the DB Server name (although I should not have to). I added a call to get the DB error – this is what it is:
Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client
I am not sure what this means. I have tried several ideas on the MySQL website, but none of them help. I am not sure if this is the PHP client or something in WordPress or what.
I have installed Toad for MySQL and have no issues connecting to the database from a remote host with it.
Brad
I have the same error when setting up WordPress and I am on Dreamhost.
I am very new to creating a website and to PHP and everything here in general and thought wordpress was a good idea for starting out. Just set up a domain name last week and went through the following setup guide:
http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/
I checked my settings for MySQL 5.0.21 and everything seems to be in order, just not sure what to do about this error since I am new to the environment. My ftp client is Cute FTP and seems to be working just fine as well. any help would be greatly appreciated. – thank you.
