Fatal error: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

Question

Fatal error: Client does not support authentication protocol
requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client in
/homepages/28/d74942468/htdocs/cosmic/sites/onlinemove/Connections/db.php
on line 9
This is the error that comes up on the server where the site
sits. The database is working on my local machine with the local
settings, but wont connect due to the above.
I think im using MySQL client 3.23 How do i upgrade?
I found this on MySQL site:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html
I'm not sure how to edit the connection string to make it
accept the vaules.

Answer 1

The_FedEx_Guy wrote:
> Fatal error: Client does not support authentication
protocol requested by
> server; consider upgrading MySQL client in
>
/homepages/28/d74942468/htdocs/cosmic/sites/onlinemove/Connections/db.php
on
> line 9
> I think im using MySQL client 3.23 How do i upgrade?
The MySQL client that the error refers to isn't the version
of MySQL,
but the MySQL library bundled with PHP. It sounds as though
your hosting
company has upgraded to MySQL 4.1 or higher, but is still
using PHP 4.
> I'm not sure how to edit the connection string to make
it accept the vaules.
You can't. It's the way that the user account passwords are
stored in
MySQL. You need to get the hosting company to upgrade to PHP
5 or to
reset the passwords in MySQL using the OLD_PASSWORD()
function. This
needs to be done by someone with top-level administrative
privileges on
the database.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
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