I googled on "install PDO on Centos" and got several sites like the following, which advises not to install from scratch but rather make use of the package manager, yum:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://karoshiethos.com/2008/07/24/installing-pdo_mysql-on-centos/">http://karoshiethos.com/2008/07/24/installing-pdo_mysql-on-centos/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Victor Kane</div><div><a href="http://awebfactory.com.ar">http://awebfactory.com.ar</a></div><div><a href="http://projectflowandtracker.com">http://projectflowandtracker.com</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:19 AM, adept digital evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlists@ade.pt">techlists@ade.pt</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
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I have been helping to review and edit the d7 installation manual from the standpoint of a reasonably technical end-user, but one with zero php experience and very little experience with my linux web server (CentOS). (And, IMO, the average person who wishes to download, install, and use Drupal should not really need to know anything about coding in php, and often will have no access to things like php configuration for the server, such as with a shared hosting account)<br>
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Anyway, I do have control over my own server (a VPS) with WHM for the server and CPanel for the domains it serves.<br>
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I am completely stymied with the need to install the PDO extension and enable it.<br>
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Where do I get it? Where do I put it? How do I get it running?<br>
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So far someone has copied information from an external site to a "What is PDO?" page at <a href="http://drupal.org/node/549702" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/549702</a> but it is not helping me at all.<br>
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I have also visited <a href="http://us3.php.net/manual/en/pdo.installation.php" target="_blank">http://us3.php.net/manual/en/pdo.installation.php</a> but this page that supposedly ought to tell one how to install tells one really NOTHING.<br>
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I have seen references to something like "./configure". What is that? Where do I find it?<br>
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Could someone volunteer to help me get PDO installed (although since I'm on CentOS 5.2 and PHP 5.2.8 as I understand it it is there already somewhere; I just have to figure out how to enable it)?<br>
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I ran into a similar problem with the need in D6 for mb_string. My status page always reports it's missing but I have no clue, again, where to get it, where to put it, and how to get it running.<br>
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If someone can work with me offline on this I will write up instructions that are intelligible to us mere mortals, i.e., the most important target market for Drupal.<br>
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thanks,<br>
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kazar at d.o.<br>
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