88plug » script error http://88plug.com paris / new york / san francisco Thu, 17 May 2012 17:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cannot connect to MySQL: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server http://88plug.com/cannot-connect-to-mysql-client-does-not-support-authentication-protocol-requested-by-server http://88plug.com/cannot-connect-to-mysql-client-does-not-support-authentication-protocol-requested-by-server#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:21:23 +0000 admin http://88plug.com/?p=215 I ran into a problem on a client site running cPanel. One our our web apps was spitting out the following error:

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Script Error
Cannot connect to MySQL: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

A quick Google search returned the fix : http://geekswithblogs.net/TimH/archive/2005/10/31/58591.aspx

From inside MYSQL, Run the following on the affected DB:

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SET PASSWORD FOR user@localhost = OLD_PASSWORD('replacemepasswd');
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