I tried installing MediaWiki 1.9.3 on my shared host (MySQL 4.x and PHP 5.x) and I have created a database through my cpanel x and a user + password for it and I keep getting the error: Attempting to connect to database server as seoappre_admin...failed due to authentication errors. Check passwords. The password is the same in the database and in the installation page, so I don't know what am I doing wrong here. Any help would be highly appreciated! Thanks! Please include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems. * PHP 5.2.1 installed * Found database drivers for: MySQL * PHP server API is cgi; using ugly URLs (index.php?title=Page_Title) * Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. * PHP's memory_limit is 40M. If this is too low, installation may fail! * Have zlib support; enabling output compression. * Couldn't find Turck MMCache, eAccelerator or APC. Object caching functions cannot be used. * Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3. * Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Found GD graphics library built-in. * Installation directory: /home/seoappre/public_html/wikiebooks/wiki * Script URI path: /wiki * Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. * Generating configuration file... * Database type: MySQL * Loading class: DatabaseMysql * Attempting to connect to database server as seoappre_admin...failed due to authentication errors. Check passwords.
Thanks guys as a matter of fact the problem was that the "local host" was not set up correctly, so it could not read from it. It is all good now : )