Saturday, January 29, 2011

Where is the best place to download old versions of MySQL server

I'm restoring an old server, and I need a copy of MySQL 4.1 for windows. MySql.com only seems to have versions going back to 5.0. I've seen old versions elsewhere, but they all seem to be from fairly sketchy websites. Is there a good unofficial place to get old versions of MySql or other software?

  • With a bit of searching?

    From
  • You can get it from here:

    ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/databases/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-4.1/

  • ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/databases/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-4.1/mysql-4.1.22-win32.zip ^^

    From henchman
  • If you look at their tech support page, you can officially want an old version of mysql. This all depends if its worth it to you than to download from those sketchy places.

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    quote: 2 - Sign up for MySQL Vintage Support For those customers where upgrading MySQL is not an option, MySQL Vintage Support provides ongoing support for older MySQL versions beyond their EOL date. With MySQL Vintage Support you can continue using MySQL versions, beyond their EOL dates, and continue to receive 24x7 Support, and access to pre-existing patches and KB articles. Additionally, with MySQL Vintage Support, you can also contract for custom bug fixes and custom builds for EOLed products.

  • Here is what I ended up doing. So it turns out, that a lot of mirrors MySQL uses for current versions still have old versions sitting on their servers. So, what I did was pretend like I was going to download a newer version, then I got a URL of mirror from the download page from there and explored the mirror manually, finding binaries for 4.1

  • http://www.OldApps.com. It doesn't have MySQL 4.1, but you did say "or other software."

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