[support] Installing php/mysql issues

[Pat Collins]

Tom,

What OS is this machine?  Maybe there is already a pre-compiled mysql
package for mysql and php for your particular OS.

Pat
PS I've changed the subject line to better reflect your issue.

On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:48:02 -0500, "Tom Holmes Jr." <tom at tomholmes.net> wrote :

> ok ..............  deep breaths .... (in through nose, out through 
> mouth) ......
> (in through nose, out through mouth) ......
> (in through nose, out through mouth) ......
> 
> Per the many suggestions ... I've spent the last three hours trying to 
> get Apache/PHP setup.
> Apache 2.2.6 is working fine ....
> I downloaded gunziiped PHP 5.2.5 ... untarred, and started to go through 
> the Apache2/PHP Unix installation as found here:
> http://us.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php
> 
> The instruction say ....
> ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql
> 
> So, I did this and got the error message:
> "configure: error: Cannot find MySQL header files under yes."
> 
> On the thread located on this page, one user quoted .....
> "| There is little or no documentation regarding the fact that MySQL 
> Client Library isn't bundled with PHP anymore.  The installation 
> instructions need to be changed with, at the very least, some 
> instructions for how to get PHP to recognize that the client library is 
> installed.  I realize that this may be a problem with licensing and as 
> such, it's not possible to document too much regarding MySQL..."
> 
> Other messages seem to indicate that either:
> a) MySQL has to be on that box now in order to get the libraries
> b) you have to download mysql and compile it in order to get the libraries.
> 
> Can some PLEASE (and I am beggin now) please point me where I can get 
> the PHP MySQL libraries so I can finish configuring my PHP with Apache, 
> so I can correctly test Drupal 5.3 on that system ....
> Or ................. should I just use an older version of PHP 5.x that 
> DOES have these mySQL libraries ....
> 
>
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> As you might remember from previous messages ... I did two installs of 
> Drupal 5.3 on Resin.
> One one machine (my laptop) Drupal-Resin-MySQL were all on one machine 
> and it ran without issues.  Perfectly fine!
> 
> In our real-world work environment ... reasonably so, the MySQL Server 
> is on another machine/server and run by MySQL DBA's.
> And when I did a Resin/Drupal install ... it worked ... but then started 
> to break ....
> but that could have been on modules issues or something else ....
> 
> I certainly know (ok, i presume) that Drupal 5.x will perfectly work on 
> Apache/PHP on one machine while the database resides on another machine.
> Right!
> 
> I've provided as much information as I have ... if you need more  ... 
> please ask me nicely ....
> 
> Please ... I am begging again ... help me with install PHP with the 
> Mysql Libraries so I can finish configuring it and setting it up.
> 
> 
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