I have a very old website built upon Joomla 1.0.15, which was last operational on PHP 5.3 and pre-MySQL 4.1. This website has nearly 100,000 pages of content, and only about 10k pages were archived with HTTrack many years ago. I would like to restore the site locally, on extremely fast hardware, and complete a thorough archival.
With wampserver3.3.7_x64, using PHP 5.6 and MySQL 5.1, the site is nearly functional- excepting database connection. This is due to password mismatch, as pre-MySQL 4.1 used a very weak database password hashing algorithm. Unfortunately, wampserver3 does not support pre-MySQL 4.1, which seems necessary to restore the weak password authentication.
So I pose this question to others: what do you suggest?
With wampserver3.3.7_x64, using PHP 5.6 and MySQL 5.1, the site is nearly functional- excepting database connection. This is due to password mismatch, as pre-MySQL 4.1 used a very weak database password hashing algorithm. Unfortunately, wampserver3 does not support pre-MySQL 4.1, which seems necessary to restore the weak password authentication.
So I pose this question to others: what do you suggest?