Posted by deko on 06/05/07 01:17

I've just loaded phpMyAdmin on a Debian Linux server with Apache2, MySql5 and
PHP5.

myserver [/root] # dpkg -l | grep php
ii libapache-mod-php5 5.2.0-8+etch4
ii libapache2-mod-php4 4.4.4-8+etch2
ii php4-common 4.4.4-8+etch2
ii php5-common 5.2.0-8+etch4
ii php5-gd 5.2.0-8+etch4
ii php5-mcrypt 5.2.0-8+etch4
ii php5-mysql 5.2.0-8+etch4
ii phpmyadmin 2.9.1.1-3

myserver [/root] # dpkg -l | grep mysql
ii libdbd-mysql-perl 3.0008-1
ii libmysqlclient15off 5.0.32-7etch1
ii mysql-client-5.0 5.0.32-7etch1
ii mysql-common 5.0.32-7etch1
ii mysql-server 5.0.32-7etch1
ii mysql-server-5.0 5.0.32-7etch1
ii php5-mysql 5.2.0-8+etch4


When I try to use phpMyAdmin, I get an error:

"Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration."

There's a link in the error that points to http://us.php.net/mysql, which says:

Use the --with-mysql[=DIR] configure option to include MySQL support.

But in the above package list, it shows "php5-mysql" is already installed. Do I
need to add this module to PHP? How?

Can someone please help me understand how to configure PHP with MySql support?

Many thanks.

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