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commit 789d3a4131c9af4cd22c8a1d4104eaa5e87aae25
Author: Marc Delisle <marc(a)infomarc.info>
Date: Sat Aug 7 07:08:11 2010 -0400
Withdraw or edit FAQ entries related to older MySQL or PHP
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Summary of changes:
ChangeLog | 1 +
Documentation.html | 57 +++++++++++----------------------------------------
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 502463d..20ebbca 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ $HeadURL:
https://phpmyadmin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/phpmyadmin/trunk/phpMyA
- patch #3039269 [dbi] Wrong variable checked for nopassword option,
thanks to Will Palmer - wpalmer
- bug #3040226 [XHTML] LockFromUpdate checkbox not checked by default
+- bug [doc] Withdraw or edit FAQ entries related to older MySQL or PHP
3.3.5.0 (2010-07-26)
- patch #2932113 [information_schema] Slow export when having lots of
diff --git a/Documentation.html b/Documentation.html
index 8d001e2..2391afb 100644
--- a/Documentation.html
+++ b/Documentation.html
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ rm -rf config # remove not needed directory
is version-specific.</p>
<p> If you have upgraded your MySQL server from a version previous to 4.1.2 to
- version 4.1.2 or newer and if you use the pmadb/linked table infrastructure,
+ version 5.x or newer and if you use the pmadb/linked table infrastructure,
you should run the SQL script found in
<tt>scripts/upgrade_tables_mysql_4_1_2+.sql</tt>.</p>
@@ -380,8 +380,7 @@ rm -rf config # remove not needed directory
where you want to give users access to their own database and don't want
them to play around with others.<br />
Nevertheless be aware that MS Internet Explorer seems to be really buggy
- about cookies, at least till version 6, and PHP 4.1.1 is also a bit buggy
- in this area!<br />
+ about cookies, at least till version 6.<br />
Even in a <b>single-user environment</b>, you might prefer to use
<abbr title="HyperText Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> or
cookie mode so
that your user/password pair are not in clear in the configuration file.
@@ -2573,18 +2572,14 @@ setfacl -d -m "g:www-data:rwx" tmp
<h3 id="faqserver">Server</h3>
<h4 id="faq1_1">
- <a href="#faq1_1">1.1 I'm running PHP 4+ and my server is
crashing each time a specific
+ <a href="#faq1_1">1.1 My server is crashing each time a specific
action is required or phpMyAdmin sends a blank page or a page full of
cryptic characters to my browser, what can I do?</a></h4>
-<p> There are some known PHP bugs with output buffering and compression.<br
/>
- Try to set the <a href="#cfg_OBGzip"
class="configrule">$cfg['OBGzip']</a>
+<p> Try to set the <a href="#cfg_OBGzip"
class="configrule">$cfg['OBGzip']</a>
directive to <tt>FALSE</tt> in your <i>config.inc.php</i>
file and the
<tt>zlib.output_compression</tt> directive to <tt>Off</tt> in
your php
- configuration file.<br />
- Furthermore, we know about such problems connected to the release
- candidates of PHP 4.2.0 (tested with PHP 4.2.0 RC1 to RC4) together with
- MS Internet Explorer. Please upgrade to the release version PHP 4.2.0.</p>
+ configuration file.<br /></p>
<h4 id="faq1_2">
<a href="#faq1_2">1.2 My Apache server crashes when using
phpMyAdmin.</a></h4>
@@ -2597,14 +2592,7 @@ setfacl -d -m "g:www-data:rwx" tmp
support groups.</p>
<h4 id="faq1_3">
- <a href="#faq1_3">1.3 I'm running phpMyAdmin with
"cookie" authentication
- mode under PHP 4.2.0 or 4.2.1 loaded as an Apache 2 module but can't enter the
- script: I'm always displayed the login screen.</a></h4>
-
-<p> This is a known PHP bug (see this
- <a
href="http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=16626">bug report</a>)
from the
- official PHP bug database. It means there is and won't be any phpMyAdmin
- fix against it because there is no way to code a fix.</p>
+ <a href="#faq1_3">1.3 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
<h4 id="faq1_4">
<a href="#faq1_4">1.4 Using phpMyAdmin on
@@ -2647,11 +2635,8 @@ setfacl -d -m "g:www-data:rwx" tmp
<p> These features are based on the <tt>gzencode()</tt> and
<tt>bzcompress()</tt>
PHP functions to be more independent of the platform (Unix/Windows, Safe Mode
- or not, and so on). So, you must have PHP4 >= 4.0.4 and
Zlib/Bzip2
- support (<tt>--with-zlib</tt> and <tt>--with-bz2</tt>).<br
/>
- We faced PHP crashes when trying to download a dump with MS Internet
- Explorer when phpMyAdmin is run with a release candidate of PHP 4.2.0. In
- this case you should switch to the release version of PHP 4.2.0.</p>
+ or not, and so on). So, you must have Zlib/Bzip2
+ support (<tt>--with-zlib</tt> and <tt>--with-bz2</tt>).<br
/></p>
<h4 id="faq1_8">
<a href="#faq1_8">1.8 I cannot insert a text file in a table, and I
get
@@ -2820,15 +2805,7 @@ setfacl -d -m "g:www-data:rwx" tmp
</p>
<h4 id="faq1_18">
- <a href="#faq1_18">1.18 I'm running
MySQL <= 4.0.1 having
- <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt> set to 1. If I create a new table with a
- capital letter in its name it is changed to lowercase as it should. But
- if I try to DROP this table MySQL is unable to find the corresponding
- file.</a></h4>
-
-<p> This is a bug of MySQL <= 4.0.1. Please upgrade to at
least
- MySQL 4.0.2 or turn off your <tt>lower_case_table_names</tt>
- directive.</p>
+ <a href="#faq1_18">1.18 (withdrawn).
<h4 id="faq1_19">
<a href="#faq1_19">1.19 I can't run the "display
relations" feature because the
@@ -2884,11 +2861,7 @@ setfacl -d -m "g:www-data:rwx" tmp
<pre>SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'lower_case_table_names';</pre>
<h4 id="faq1_24">
- <a href="#faq1_24">1.24 Some characters are being truncated in my
queries, or I
- get characters randomly added. I am running PHP 4.2.3.</a></h4>
-
-<p> This is a <a
href="http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=19404">PHP
4.2.3 bug</a>.
- </p>
+ <a href="#faq1_24">1.24 (withdrawn).</a></h4>
<h4 id="faq1_25">
<a href="#faq1_25">1.25 I am running Apache with mod_gzip-1.3.26.1a
on Windows XP,
@@ -3702,11 +3675,7 @@ $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] =
array(
</a></h4>
<p>
MS Internet Explorer seems to be really buggy about cookies, at least till
- version 6. And thanks to Andrew Zivolup we've traced also a PHP 4.1.1 bug
- in this area!
- <br />
- Then, if you're running PHP 4.1.1, try to upgrade or downgrade... it may
- work!
+ version 6.
</p>
<h4 id="faq5_5">
@@ -4222,11 +4191,11 @@ INSERT INTO REL_towns VALUES ('M',
'Montréal');
</pre>
<h4 id="faq6_20">
- <a href="#faq6_20">6.20 In MySQL 4, I see a lot of databases which
are not mine, and cannot
+ <a href="#faq6_20">6.20 I see a lot of databases which are not mine,
and cannot
access them.
</a></h4>
-<p> Upgrading to MySQL 4 usually gives users those global privileges: CREATE
+<p> You have one of these global privileges: CREATE
TEMPORARY TABLES, SHOW DATABASES, LOCK TABLES. Those privileges also
enable users to see all the database names.
See this <a
href="http://bugs.mysql.com/179">bug
report</a>.<br /><br />
hooks/post-receive
--
phpMyAdmin