Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for Word

larry_luckham
(@larry_luckham)

20 years, 7 months ago

Let me start by saying that I have done the search and tried all the solutions suggested, so far without success.
Most of the other posts deal with Apache installations. I have a Win 2003 Server running IIS6. PHP and MySQL are each installed on C:/ in their own directories, and the MySQL datafiles are in a separate directory on E:/. WP is installed as a sub directory of a website as E:/website/wordpress. PHP and MySQL both seem to work OK. That is, IE will respond to a simple PHP script and the MySQL Administrator runs, sees the users installed and both the default MySQL DB and the new DB shell I created.

Browsing to the install.php file produces the dreaded “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress” error.

mysql.dll and libmysql.dll are both in the C:/PHP directory along with php-cgi.exe and both are also in C:/winnt.system32.

removing the comment from extension=php_mysql.dll in the php.ini file (in C:/winnt) causes the browser to hang rather than produce the MySQL missing message.

I’ve also tried other permutations, so far without success. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

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zhe
(@zhe)

20 years, 5 months ago

I have the same problem :'(

enrique
(@enrique)

20 years, 5 months ago

Are you guys sure that you have not only uncommented the mysql extension in php.ini, but set “extension_dir” to point at php_mysql.dll (which is in php/ext by default)? Like so:

extension_dir = “ext/”
…
extension=php_mysql.dll

satishnkn
(@satishnkn)

20 years ago

i have tried all the above suggestions ie

1. uncommented the extension=php_mysql.dll and also the extension_dir = “ext/”

but still i have the same problem saying Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress

any one can help me or give me any suggestions…

vanillaice
(@vanillaice)

20 years ago

I’m having similar problems as well. I was told my DB was not on localhost, it was set to an IP and has a port. I tried entering

‘DB_HOST’, ‘IP:PORT’

but with no luck.

I tried to uncomment the php_mysql.dll, but no luck. Any tips? Thanks!

saqib81
(@saqib81)

20 years ago

Hi,

Same story here!
Can any one resolve this problem..

Bye.

sainib
(@sainib)

19 years, 11 months ago

Guys the issue is that the Apache is not able to read the php.ini file, Do this and this will solve the problem.

Note : I copied the file at three locations but you can try one at a time to see which is the correct place.

Copy the php.ini file from C:\Program Files\Apache2\Apache Group and paste it in
– ..Apache Group\bin\
– C:\Windows\
– C:\Windows\System32\

The file php.ini was already present in C:\Windows which was surely not done by me, so system internally placed it there.. and that should be the correct dir.

I think there will be a logic in Apache to see if the file is already placed in C:\Windows, if not pick from Apache Group and paste it .. so if you start the server before completing the changes.. it will place the file in ini file and will not attempt to copy again once you do more changes..

In anycase, following above steps should resolve the problem

ozzapoo
(@ozzapoo)

19 years, 11 months ago

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