[support] PHP & MySQL

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Oct 15 11:22:31 UTC 2008


Quoting George Rodgers-Clark <georger at depiction.com>:

> I'm doing a new install on an Ubuntu 8.04 server w/PHP5, MySQL server 
> and apache2. I'm getting the "We're unable to use the MySQL database 
> because the MySQL extension for PHP is not installed" error. If found 
> the "extension=mysql.so" statement in the php.ini file and activated 
> it, but find no "mysql.so" file on the server (even after installing 
> mysql-client per a couple of forum/site recommendations. Any ideas?
>

You have to install the extension separately.  PHP can no longer 
distribute it.

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