Posted by gquiring@gmail.com on 01/23/08 18:15

I have a new server running CentOS 5.1. I was surprised the stock
PHP excludes MySQL, PDO and a bunch of other popular modules. I
decided to download the source and compile a version with the modules
I need but I used the phpinfo() configure option and modified my
changes. What I don't get is stock configure (no changes) won't
compile on my box. For example in the configure is --with-apxs2=/usr/
sbin/apxs'. I don't even have that binary. How can this run without
that extension?

Next I tried yum list|grep php. I see several packages including php-
mysql.i386 and php-pdo.i386. So I installed them but phpinfo still
does not show MySql support.

So how do I get MySQL into PHP? If I compile it looks like need to
also build Apache. Any direction would be appreciated.

Thanks
Gary Quiring

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