For whatever reason , some people still want to run the old version of MySQL4.1 in there new cPanel servers, which seems a little issue , as the default database version in new cPanel server installs is MySQL5.
Here are the simple steps to downgrade the database (this should only be done on a new server without any account on it yet)
Log into SSH as root and modify the cpanel.config
nano /var/cpanel/cpanel.config
search for the mysql version
Ctrl + w , mysql
Now log into WHM and make sure MySQL 4.1 is checked in
Main >> Server Configuration >> Tweak Settings
And now change the version from 5.0 to 4.1
and now you need to run
/scripts/mysqlup –force
to force the downgrade .
