PHP/MySQL improvements in Mac OS X Server 10.4.4

The latest Mac OS X Server update to version 10.4.4 solves two issues with the default PHP/MySQL installation in Mac OS X Server. Older Tiger server versions used different sockets for PHP and MySQL, so you had to tell one of the applications to use the socket of the other app. In addition, older server versions used different standard password types in both apps, so you had to tell MySQL to use the same password encryption like PHP. With Mac OS X Server 10.4.4 the standard settings already work well. In my setup, that you see on this machine, an update from a manually configured 10.4.3 to 10.4.4 went smoothly.
The detailed knowledge base article on the Apple site can be found here.