Posted by Plato on 02/12/06 13:01

Hi all

I have tried 3 times installing PHP in precise accordance with Dreamweaver 8
help menu (on a Windows XP Pro system using IIS 5).

Briefly the procedure I followed was as follows:

Downloaded and installed PHP-5.04-Installer. Then downloaded and
unzipped to a temporary folder the file PHP-5.1.1-Win32.zip.

Then copied the folder "ext" from the temporary folder to the C:\PHP folder.

Then edited the PHP.ini file (in the C:\Windows folder):

Changed extension_dir="./" to extension_dir="C:\PHP\ext\"
De-commented the line ;extension=php_mysql.dll by removing the ;

Saved PHP.ini

Copied file libmysql.dll from the temporary folder to C:\Windows\system32
folder

Finally, stopped and restarted IIS

All that done I then find that when I try to run the file "test.php" in my
browser (IE6) I get the following error message:

"PHP Startup: Unable to load the dynamic library C;\PHP\ext\php_mysql.dll -
the specified module could not be found."

After closing this error message (twice) I get the correct PHP info page.

Has anyone any ideas on this which also happens if I use the PHP v4 files?

Thanks

Plato

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