Please Help, PHP 5 downgrade to 4.4.4 killed my WP 2 :(

  • Resolved ali-butt

    (@ali-butt)


    17 years, 10 months ago

    Hi All,

    Whilst troubleshooting a php access violation issue, i was recommended that i downgrade my php from 5 to 4.

    I followed the basic instructions of installing php4 on windows2003 (extract to c:\php , add the service extension for php in ii6).

    You can see the results of the installation here
    https://www.alibutt.com/test.php

    So it looks like everything is installed OK.

    However when i try and start wordpress:
    https://www.alibutt.com

    I get a “cant establish conenction to database”

    I can confirm that all services are running. In the php.ini i was going to uncomment the mysql module lines but it says in there that the mysql support is built in and does not need any extra dll’s

    I would be eternally grateful if someone could help me get my site up and running again.

    Thanks in advance
    Ali
    windows 2003
    IIS 6
    php 4.4
    mysql 5

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  • Thread Starter ali-butt

    (@ali-butt)

    Quick update
    if i try and log in to phpmyadmin ( I can see the login box), i get an

    “Error
    #1251 – Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client”

    i dont know if this is related ??

    Thread Starter ali-butt

    (@ali-butt)

    Hi All,

    Well after much hair pulling, i have finally got it working!

    I needed to log in to sql and enter the following command:

    SET PASSWORD FOR ‘some_user’@’some_host’ = OLD_PASSWORD(‘newpwd’);

    I updated the password i used for the database.

    I then changed this in the php.ini “extension=php_mbstring.dll”

    as an addon was complaining about it.

    My site is back online and everything seems to be OK.

    lets hope the initial php access violation issue with php5 has been resolved with php4.

    Thanks All

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