[BlueOnyx:22957] Re: Mod PHP problem (Michael Stauber)

[Darren Shea]

Michael, 
     Please forgive my ignorance, but how does one reset a password in this
way using phpMyAdmin? I see "Change password" under General Settings, and if
I go into Settings, there is a general Reset button, but neither seems to be
what you mean. I did run a Change Password in phpMyAdmin, keeping the same
password, then installed the Mod PHP and got the same "Error establishing a
database connection" problem as before, so I think it's more likely I didn't
do what I needed to do, than that your advice was wrong...

What is the process to solve this issue?

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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 02:03:15 -0500
From: Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it>
To: blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it
Subject: [BlueOnyx:22943] Re: Mod PHP problem
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Hi Darren,

> But, since every task I undertake seems to cause headaches,
> it broke my WordPress 5.1.1 setup, giving me database errors. After going
> under Installed Software and uninstalling this new PHP version, the
> WordPress site is fine. 
> 
> Now, I can see in my WordPress dashboard that it does advise me to upgrade
-
> specifically, I have the following message:
> 
> An updated version of WordPress is available.
> You cannot update because WordPress 5.2.1 requires PHP version 5.6.20 or
> higher. You are running version 5.3.3. 

Yeah, you can get into these catch-22 situations with PHP and MySQL.
Perhaps the case here is this:

The MySQL user for that database was created with old style passwords
and newer PHP versions do no longer support these. The "fix" is to
simply reset the passwords once. You can even set the same password(s)
again, as during the reset the "new style" for the passwords will be
used. You can either do this from the command line, or easily via
phpMyAdmin.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber


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