MySQL PHP incompatibility

Question

I\'m running WAMP locally, but connecting to a remote MySQL database. The local version of PHP is the latest 5.3.0.

One of the remote databases, being version 5.0.45

Answer 1

Your database server is set to use old passwords by default. The error message you get is mysqlnd seeing a database that can support the new (safer) authentication but refuses to do so. In such a case, mysqlnd aborts the connection and refuses to work.

Make sure your my.cnf does not have

old-passwords = 1 

After you comment out that setting from my.cnf (or remove it from where else it might be set), and restart your server, make sure to re-set your password using the command VolkerK describes, otherwise you won't be able to log in.