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April 23, 2013 3:06pm
Subscribe [2]#1 / Apr 23, 2013 3:06pm
I keep getting an MYSQL error when trying to run the installation wizard for ee168 and ee169.
It thinks that the user “root” does not have the appropriate privileges, when in fact it has ALL privileges. This started happening when i upgraded wamp to version 2.2…
Does ee168/169 have any issues with PHP 5.3.13 OR MySQL 5.5.24 ??
Other installations like 1.7.2 through 2.5.5 work just fine.
#2 / Apr 27, 2013 4:03pm
EE 1.6x is very old now so may not be 100% compatible with later PHP/MySQL versions.
Is there are reason you’re using such an old version?
#3 / Apr 29, 2013 11:21am
As it turns out, it was the MySQL version. I downloaded MySQL 5.1.X version and ran ee1.6.8 through that, worked like a charm.
The reason we’re still on this version is that, originally when this website was developed it grew too dependant on plugins, extensions, modules. So just upgrading to 2+ when we attempted it was a complete disaster as many of these “extras” are no longer supported, or are not available for ee2 or just the overall way an add-on works doesn’t translate well when upgrading.
We’re switching to ee2 in the future, but we still need to maintain the 1.6 until that time comes.