From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-07-26T00:21:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Deploying to A2 Hosting from Windows

enspired wrote:
> I am admittedly a Ruby Newbie and I am inexperienced in *nix/Apache
> environments. I recently set up a hosting account with A2 hosting
> (www.a2hosting.com) and am trying to get my first rails app deployed. I
> think I'm getting close but I've now encoutered a MySQL binding issue
> trying to use the hashed_password functionality.
> 
> Does anyone here have experience deploying rails from Windows to A2? I
> could use some assistance.

Depending on what version of MySQL you are using, you might be running 
into the problems caused by the fact that MySQL changed the hashing 
algorithm used for passwords starting with version 4.1.7. You can find 
more info about that here:

   http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Old_client.html

Curt