[support] Installation issue on OpenBSD 4.6

[Jamie Holly]

Most likely this is because of the "minimalistic" approach of *BSD. I 
handle a couple of sites on FreeBSD and NetBSD, and you almost always 
have to install items as extras that are supposed to be PHP defaults. 
Most likely you need to get the php5-mysql port installed. If you are 
using Drupal 7 then you need the php5-pdo and php5-json, and 
php5-pdo_mysql ports also. If you want to do any image manipulation then 
grab php5-gd. You might as well grab php5-curl also since there are 
quiet a few modules that use curl.

And I'm sure I'm forgetting a few things. I always do when I deal with *BSD.

Yup I did - php5-session also LOL.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net 
http://www.hollyit.net



Dave Frazier wrote:
> I've installed PHP 5 and MySQL 5 per the documented requirements. I 
> have the Drupal 6.14 files in the Apache DOCROOT as instructed. I've 
> created the database and started mysqld. When I get into the Drupal 
> installation script, after "Choose language" and "Verify 
> requirements," in "Set up database," I'm getting this message:
>
> Your web server does not appear to support any common database types
>
> I'm hosting my site on a local server, NATing port 80 traffic on my 
> firewall to a private IP (and of course I can hit the installation 
> script as well as index.html from a browser on another local machine.)
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks.