any way to get revolution running on mediatemple (gs) grid-server?

"Checking MySQL client version: Failed! - You are running on MySQL 4.1.11, and MODx Revolution requires MySQL 4.1.20 or later. Please upgrade MySQL to at least 4.1.20."

i get this error when i’m trying to install. in phpmyadmin i see the info in the picture below: ("Server version: 5.1.26-rc-5.1.26rc" and "MySQL client version: 4.1.11")

i don’t recall what the settings have been on previous servers i’ve worked on, but on my work server both versions are the same. why would they be different on the mt (gs) server? is there any way i can get it to use the newer version instead of the old? anyone able to get revolution to work on a (gs) setup?

when setting up databases, and when signing up with mediatemple it appears everything is 5.1.26, i never noticed this two versions thing until trying to install revolution yesterday. i hope there’s a work around, as their suggestion was to move up to a more expensive (dv) dedicated-virtual hosting package, and i’m not really making any money off of my server right now, so i don’t want to pay twice as much or have to start charging for the few sites i have up there now.

If you contact support they may be able to help you to get a newer version installed.

It’s very odd that they would be compiling PHP against MySQL libraries for 4.1.11 when providing clients with MySQL 5.1.x server instances.

Regardless, you can go to setup/includes/modinstalltest.class.php and around line 120, change the version from 4.1.20 to 4.1.11; that should let you install and see if it works for you.

i had contacted them, but they aren’t able to just upgrade it because it’s one of those cheapy shared environments where it’d probably fix my problem, but break hundreds of other people’s applications. if i were to upgrade to a dedicated virtual server they said it’d be no problem, but it’s twice as much.

i’ll try out the changing of the modinstalltest.class.php file - thanks for the tip! i certainly won’t run anything important in production using this hack, i really just want to play around with revolution and get familiar with it’s differences before it’s released (at which point maybe i’ll upgrade my server).

Quote from: slush at Dec 31, 2009, 07:47 AM

i had contacted them, but they aren’t able to just upgrade it because it’s one of those cheapy shared environments where it’d probably fix my problem, but break hundreds of other people’s applications. if i were to upgrade to a dedicated virtual server they said it’d be no problem, but it’s twice as much.

i’ll try out the changing of the modinstalltest.class.php file - thanks for the tip! i certainly won’t run anything important in production using this hack, i really just want to play around with revolution and get familiar with it’s differences before it’s released (at which point maybe i’ll upgrade my server).

Why don’t you try to install it locally then?

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Why don’t you try to install it locally then?

cause i’m lazy? just kidding (kinda), good point. i just cleaned out my computer to put windows 7 on it, but i have a linux partition on it, so maybe i will finally setup a local environment.

Regardless, you can go to setup/includes/modinstalltest.class.php and around line 120, change the version from 4.1.20 to 4.1.11; that should let you install and see if it works for you.

i changed this:

to:

on line 120 as you suggested, and was able to install. thus far i’ve only logged into the admin and created one simple page, so i’m not sure if i’ll encounter any problems later on, but it works just fine on the most basic of levels!

depends this on any ressources MODx uses? Or is it only the setup which has problems with this different versions?

Quote from: nachtmeister at Feb 06, 2010, 10:54 AM

depends this on any ressources MODx uses? Or is it only the setup which has problems with this different versions?

It’s definitely not recommended to run mysql client versions that differ from your server version (especially ones as old as 4.x), as is the case here with MediaTemple GS. But you can get through the setup and test it yourself by making the change mentioned in that link.