[support] PHP & MySQL

[Joe Stewart]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:04 AM, George Rodgers-Clark <georger at depiction.com
> wrote:

>  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?
>
>

If you are using the Ubuntu php packages, try installing the php5 mysql
extension:

  sudo apt-get install php5-mysql

Joe

Thanks in advance,
> George
>
> George Rodgers-Clark
> http://testweb.depiction.com (troubled site)
>
>
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