Posted by saturday on 06/10/06 20:17

I was having problems getting mysql to work with php on my apache
server. Thankfully I got it working after reading a different thread,
which had me copy over the libmysql file to the apache/bin folder, but
this leaves the question: why didn't it work in the first place? It was
driving me nuts, and I'd still like to know why.

My settings before I dragged over the file:

XP Pro SP2
Latest PHP installed in "C:\Program Files\php"
Latest mysql with the latest Connector\PHP files in the proper PHP
dir's.

>From phpinfo():
Configuration File (php.ini) Path: C:\Program Files\php\php.ini

PHP Core
extension_dir: c:\Program Files\php\ext

Apache Environment
Path: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (February
2006)\Utilities\Bin\x86";C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK
(October
2005)\Utilities\Bin\x86;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;"C:\Program
Files\php";C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\

(the path was set up many restarts ago)

>From php.ini
extension=php_mysql.dll enabled

>From the apache httpd.conf file
# For PHP 5 do something like this:
LoadModule php5_module "c:/Program Files/php/php5apache2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

# configure the path to php.ini
PHPIniDir "C:/Program Files/php"

>From the Apache error log:
Unable to load dynamic library 'c:\\Program
Files\\php\\ext\\php_mysql.dll'


>From all the FAQ's and guides I read, that configuration should have
been a go. What was I doing wrong?

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