MySQL client and server version 4.1.0 or higher is required for Roster.

You are running:

* Your server version: 4.1.15-Debian_1ubuntu5
* Your client version: 3.23.56

MySQL versions less than 4.1.0 may experience data corruption and are not supported.
We will not provide support for these types of installations.

what should I do?

get an update...
if you are using a webhost, ask them if they have a newer mysql and if you can change your account to one of them.

if all fails, get a new host...

if you have access to update things this post may be helpfull although its not for ubuntu http://www.wowroster.net/Forums/viewtopic/t=3946.html

it looks like your webserver needs an update for php4-mysql
your mysql server should be ok

I changed host to one with loke client and server version 5.1 somewhat, installed roster and guess what..[quote=PHP Errors]lib/functions.lib.php
Warning line 1113: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration
Warning line 1113: file_get_contents(http://www.wowroster.net/roster_updater/version.txt) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found[/quote]
so: [quote=URL Grabber]Could not retrieve URL
Backtrace (most recent call last):

* lib/functions.lib.php
o Line: 236
o Function Called: backtrace
* lib/functions.lib.php
o Line: 1119
o Function Called: die_quietly
o Arguments:
+ Could not retrieve URL
+ URL Grabber
* pages/rostercp.php
o Line: 71
o Function Called: urlgrabber
o Arguments:
+ http://www.wowroster.net/roster_updater/version.txt
* index.php
o Line: 67
o Function Called: require
o Arguments:
+ /home/***/***/***/***/htdocs/pages/rostercp.php[/quote] could somebody suggest me hosting that I could use for testing?

I bumped into a similar issue when installing on one of my servers, though the circumstances were a bit different.

In my case it's a Windows 2003 server of my own, running IIS, and a very recent copy of MySQL 5.0.41. Apparently MySQL 5 does some strange stuff with logins which is explained here:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html

The result was that wowroster (and a lot of other stuff, like some forums I wanted to install) couldn't even authenticate against the MySQL server. To solve this, I had to follow the procedure explained in the previous link, and everything was fine. Until...

I tried to install the new version of WoWRoster and, like yourself, I was informed that just the "client" side of my server was outdated.

I don't understand the whys and whats of MySQL, but it seemed strange that the client side was showing such an old version just because I changed the login method. I knew my actual server was 5.0.41. Anyway, I chose to ignore it--or rather, to tell the install to ignore it--by doing the following:

- Open install.php
- Find this line (around 529):
$client_version = mysql_get_client_info();
- Change to this:
$client_version = mysql_get_server_info();

That just tells the check to read the server version for both the client and server versions, and it passes. (There are a bunch of other ways you can get around this too.)

So far I have not had any issues. Maybe I will down the road, maybe I won't. If you choose to do this same process always remember that it is non-standard and may cause issues and I will not be responsible for them. But until then, it seems to work.

(Maybe someone more savy in the ways of MySQL can explain to us the difference in server and client version and if the client version being outdated is a concern, or if only the server version really matters. If it turns out that the client version doesn't matter, perhaps we can remove the check for it in the install.)

oh thank you thank you very much! that worked just perfectly (vonder how i did not come to it myself)

Thanks for checking this out seleleth
I think the only parts of Roster that require 4.1 is the memberslist

If alt grouping works, then we should be ok

i used the work around and it let me install the roster will this affect anything in general during these beta runs ??

Can you post your mysql server and client version Masterslayer?

Fixed the fopen wrapper problem. Now, if it can't check the latest version, it will output a php user warning and continue, instead of dying.

same problem but i use version 4.1.x on both :

MySQL client and server version 4.1.0 or higher is required for Roster.

You are running:

* Your server version: 4.1.11-Debian_4sarge7-log
* Your client version: 4.0.24

MySQL versions less than 4.1.0 may experience data corruption and are not supported.
We will not provide support for these types of installations.

before proceed all in green markup .

Hi all,

i have the same Problem talk to the Hotline of my Host but they don't have a clue what need to be updated to get the Client Version higher.

Could someone help me to tell them what need's to be updated.

Thx

MySQL client and server version 4.1.0 or higher is required for Roster.

You are running:

* Your server version: 5.0.26-standard-log
* Your client version: 4.0.25

MySQL versions less than 4.1.0 may experience data corruption and are not supported.
We will not provide support for these types of installations.

The problem is to do with the connector (client) that PHP uses with MySQL. Without going into too much detail, the version that PHP bundles is older than the MySQL version.

To update Windows servers is pretty easy as there is a binary download. This isn't the case for Linux distributions though

For more information visit: MYSQL AB: Download Connector

As for Seleleth's question about client version checking, I can't see why dropping this check would effect the installation as long as the server version is ok.
Hope this helps!

davidnorman1 wrote:As for Seleleth's question about client version checking, I can't see why dropping this check would effect the installation as long as the server version is ok.
Hope this helps!

Yes, but we are making sure this is true though
I haven't seen any errors posted on this issue, so at this point, I think it's safe