You cannot update because WordPress 3.3.1 requires MySQL version 5.0 or higher.

  • justineukava

    (@justineukava)


    13 years ago

    I was running an old version of WordPress, on a server running an older version of php. I triggered a password reminder and bam – I got this message and can’t log in to my blog:
    You cannot update because WordPress 3.3.1 requires MySQL version 5.0 or higher.

    I contacted my host who transferred the site and the database over to a server running My SQL version 5, but now what do I do?

    I’m not sure what I have to change in order to get the site to access the new database rather than the old one. At the moment I am still getting the same error message I presume becasue I need to make some changes.

    Please can someone help as I have very little technical knowledge and my hosting company aren’t that familiar with WordPress (or they dont want to help!).

    ANy help would be very much appreciated. Many thanks.

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  • If you have a new database (with a different name / address), you would need to put the new connection info into wp-config.php

    You can find that file in your site root, using ftp or a file manager if your host offers one.

    You can get the the database name / address / username and passowrd from your host

    Hello,

    This worked for me. My site was migrated from old server , and DB host was set to old server host name , so the database was getting connected perfectly on old server and there fore showing old mysql version than available on current host.

    the moral of the story is : always try to set localhost as dbhost instead of any host name.

    Thanks Rev. Voodoo

    Thread Starter justineukava

    (@justineukava)

    Many thanks to you both. Changing the setting back to localhost has done it!

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