PHP won't work with MySQL: help!

Kimball Larsen yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue May 7 19:16:00 2002


yay!

Now I don't have to worry about messing up my rpm database! :)

Thanks for the info. 

-Kimball Larsen 

On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 18:25, Rob Schumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 07-05-2002 Kimball Larsen wrote:
> 
>  > The php build that comes with YDL 2.2 is broken.  In order to
>  > make mysql work with it correctly, you will need to build your
>  > own php.  In my case, I am going to go a step farther and build
>  > my own mysql, apache, and php.
> 
> I had the same problem a couple of days ago and raised the question on linuxppc-user list. The solution (which works) does not require a rebuild of php, rather all you need do is edit the /etc/php.ini file.
> 
> About 2/3 down this file are places to define
> 
> extension_dir and extension
> 
> Change these to
> 
> extension_dir /usr/lib/php4
> 
> extension mysql.so
> 
> You can also add the other extensions found in the same directory, if you are nee3ding to use them
> 
> extension imap.so
> extension ldap.so
> extension odbc.so
> extension pgsql.so
> 
> That's it. Save the new file as /etc/php.ini and restart httpd
> 
> service httpd restart
> 
> And you now have a working apache+php+mysql
> 
> Enjoy
> 
> Rob
> 
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