<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:04 AM, George Rodgers-Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:georger@depiction.com">georger@depiction.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial">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?</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div></div></blockquote><div><br>If you are using the Ubuntu php packages, try installing the php5 mysql extension:<br><br> sudo apt-get install php5-mysql<br><br>Joe<br><br></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Thanks in advance,</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">George</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">George Rodgers-Clark</font></div>
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