RE: [Koha-win32] need help

[Dana Huff]

Hello Partha,

 

There are indeed several issues with running Koha on MySQL 5.0 and not just with Windows so I’m posting this on the Koha general list also.

 

First, to log in to Koha you need to make some changes to your MySQL authentication. With the default installation you will get something like:

 

>> DBI connect('mycomputer:localhost','koha',...) failed: Client does not support 

>> authentication protocolrequested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client at 

>> C:\usr\koha225\modules/C4/Context.pm line 409.

 

You can overcome the problem by editing line 1808 of Install.pm from:

print system("$mysqldir/bin/mysql -u$mysqluser -e \"insert into user (Host,User,Password) values

('$hostname','$user',password('$pass'))\" mysql\;"); 

to:  

print system("$mysqldir/bin/mysql -u$mysqluser -e \"insert into user (Host,User,Password) values

('$hostname','$user',OLD_PASSWORD('$pass'))\" mysql\;");

(Thanks to Andrew Koebrick (address@hidden) for that solution.)

 

Or, of course, you can execute the mysql command manually to do the same thing if you don’t use the install script, which you probably didn’t to install Koha on Windows.

 

Then there is a new reserved word in MySQL 5 – “return” which is used as a field name in the issues table in Koha. So in any place that is referenced it must be enclosed in single quotes, or back-quotes. I haven’t found an instance of that in the Koha modules or scripts but I’m still looking.

 

Finally, there are a couple of modules that must be modified because of changes in the SQL syntax rules with MySQL 5. Theses are in intranet/modules/C4:

 

Search.pm

918c918

<                                                                                   on additionalauthors.biblionumber =biblio.biblionumber

---

>                                                                                   on (additionalauthors.biblionumber =biblio.biblionumber)

989c989

<                                                           biblio.biblionumber=bibliosubtitle.biblionumber

---

>                                                           (biblio.biblionumber=bibliosubtitle.biblionumber)

1305c1305

<                                                           left join itemtypes on biblioitems.itemtype = itemtypes.itemtype

---

>                                                           left join itemtypes on (biblioitems.itemtype = itemtypes.itemtype)

1494c1494

<                                                                                               from biblio, biblioitems

---

>                                                                                               from biblioitems, biblio

1496,1497c1496,1497

<                                                                                               biblio.biblionumber = bibliosubtitle.biblionumber

<                                                                                               left join itemtypes on biblioitems.itemtype=itemtypes.itemtype

---

>                                                                                               (biblio.biblionumber = bibliosubtitle.biblionumber)

>                                                                                               left join (itemtypes on biblioitems.itemtype=itemtypes.itemtype)

 

SearchMarc.pm

344,346c344,346

<                                                                                   FROM biblio, marc_biblio

<                                                                                   LEFT JOIN biblioitems on biblio.biblionumber = biblioitems.biblionumber

<                                                                                   LEFT JOIN itemtypes on itemtypes.itemtype=biblioitems.itemtype

---

>                                                                                   FROM marc_biblio, biblio

>                                                                                   LEFT JOIN biblioitems on (biblio.biblionumber = biblioitems.biblionumber)

>                                                                                   LEFT JOIN itemtypes on (itemtypes.itemtype=biblioitems.itemtype)

 

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From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of P. S. Mukhopadhyay
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:18 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Koha-win32] need help

 

Hello friends,

 

Is any one of us using MySQL 5.0 as backend RDBMS for Koha on Windows? I'm running it through MySQL 3.23.58 but facing problems with MySQL 5.x. What is the problem? Pl. suggest.

 

Partha

DLISc, Vidyasagar University