I'm currently trying to install MediaWiki onto my (minimalist, for the moment) hosting, to use a remote MySQL server (this is very ad-hoc, just testing the theory).
Unfortunately, it doesn't quite seem to want to work. Although I provide it with a database username and password, it seems quite intent on not using them.
I get this at the end (error message, and showing where it's all going wrong):
It shouldn't be trying to connect as root...MediaWiki wrote:Trying to connect to MySQL on http://www.freesql.org as root...
Connected as root (automatic)
Connected to 5.0.16-standard; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements; You are using MySQL 4.1 server, but PHP is linked to old client libraries; if you have trouble with authentication, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html for help.
Error selecting database pexiowiki: 1044 Access denied for user 'root'@'%' to database 'pexiowiki'