Title: Install issues – PHP Installation missing MySQL Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Install issues – PHP Installation missing MySQL * [jespere11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jespere11/) * (@jespere11) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/) * This 5-minute install must be joking…hmmm…been trying to get this up and running for five days. * Get: ‘Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.’ * Test of PHP works fine and MySql works fine. * Alas, WordPress does not launch. * If I rem out the ‘die (‘your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress’), you then get a blank page * Any ideas? Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * [TechGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techgnome/) * (@techgnome) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205363) * Let’s start with the simple questions first: Did you properly set yourt database connection settings in the wp-config.php file? * Secondly, are you sure they are correct? * Tg * [iand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iand/) * (@iand) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205364) * More simple questions: Whan environment: local, hosted, OSX, Windows? * Thread Starter [jespere11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jespere11/) * (@jespere11) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205450) * Thanks for suggestions. I unstalled PHP (even though the tests of PHP were working) and reinstalled using the automated install. It is now getting to a login screen, but will not login in (thought it will give an error with the wrong password) * [blogfido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blogfido/) * (@blogfido) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205483) * why when i go to install.php my browser try to download it? * [wej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wej/) * (@wej) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205495) * I am also having problems getting past first base on installation. * I am using Windows2000 and WAMPS as my local working environment. I have unzipped WordPress into the same directory alongside the WAMPs services Apache, MySQL, PHP, WWW and tmp directories. I have * I have created a copy of wp-config-sample.php and saved it in WordPress as wp- config.php ( I can see it ). * To run the install I use Firefox. * I select File from the top menu and then OpenFile and then select wp-admin\install and immeadiately get 2 error reports . Top line says need wp-config.php file. Half way down I get the message ” Already Installed”. I have checked and can’t find an installed copy of WordPress. * Finally I have not set up a MySQL database to hold WordPress yet as I thought that this was what the instal would do? * Help! * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205517) * For the last one: No, you have to create a database, otherwise what info do you out in the config file? WP will just populate the DB with the proper tables. * [wej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wej/) * (@wej) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205583) * Thank you moshu. O.K. I didn’t think that I could set up the database without knowing the schema etc? In wp-config.php I set up the DB_NAME to ‘pensfor’. I have been using HTML and ASP and MS-Sql for 3 years but I’m new to PHP and MySql. I will give it a try. * [oceancarphotmailcom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oceancarphotmailcom/) * (@oceancarphotmailcom) * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205845) * Here is the fix that worked for me when I received the error: “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.” * For background, I am running: Windows 2000 Apache 1.3.29 PHP 5.04 MySQL 4.1 * The problem seems to have been that although I changed the PATH environment variable to include my PHP install directory (c:\php5.04) it was not finding my php.ini file there. This is odd because I renamed all other php.ini files on the system, so I don’t know what it was using… maybe it doesn’t need a php.ini file at all and if it can’t find one it loads defaults. In any case, I could tell it wasn’t loading it because when I viewed a php_info page it wasn’t giving me updated values for the extension_dir and various other settings. So I tried copying my php.ini file into the winnt directory, and that got it reading the file. * However, then I was getting errors that 2 mysql dlls could not be loaded. I found a post on another site that recommended renaming versions of this file other than the one in the php install directory. I did that and it worked. * I hope that helps… I hope wordpress is worth it! * [chrisbrace](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisbrace/) * (@chrisbrace) * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205846) * Good news I solved mu install problem today!!!!! Yippee and finally got WordPress working. Now note, im using Fedora Core 3. Full details of my quest are here. [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/36857](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/36857) How I did it. (Witch hunt begins here). Removed PHP5 (I download and installed this by hand). Reinstalled PHP from the FC3 distro (4.3.9 in my case). Startup apache. No Go. Enabled logging in PHP to see what the problem was. See nothing. Its a connection problem (right?) im sure from PHP to MySQL. Have a look at the mysql logs? Nothing. No connection, no nothing. hunt some more. So i created a small test.php to do a connect and select from mysql. When i ran this i got an error complaining about Could not connec to MySQL server socket ‘/var/lib/ mysql/mysql.sock’ (13). Right a little more visibiliy of the problem now. Perhaps its a permission issues? Checkout a the mysql.sock file. Its ok. Now i remember that i problems with getting just my initial test pages to even show with apache and it turned out to be SELinux permissions problem. That was solved with the“ chcon” command to grant the httpd persmissions to the DOCUMENT ROOT directory and that fixed that. With that in mind i found this little gem [http://opendeveloper.org/node/view/191](http://opendeveloper.org/node/view/191). We’re getting somewhere now. I modified the /etc/selinux/config file and set SELINUX=disabled. Reboot the box, and when it all came up, presto. Away it all went. problem solved – kinda. I dont know that globally turning off SELinux support is a good idea. Im sure there is a property that i should set on the …sock.. file for httpd to access it and that would solve the problem. I’ll investigate that and repost my findings. ANyway, hope that helps anyone out * [zorlu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zorlu/) * (@zorlu) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205856) * Has anyone managed to solve this problem? * My server is Win 2003 Web edition with IIS 6.0 I have unistalled php and reinstalled latest version. Also I uninstalled MYsql and installed latest windows release. php is working and so is Mysql I can connect to database with MySQL Control center. I can create databases and tables. I just couldn’t get Word press to work. I Keep gettin “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress” error. * I made a test.php with following code: * * it shows bunch of informaiton about the server and php. It does not mention Mysql anywhere. Should it do that? * I know nothing about php and mysql. I know asp. But I am sure that php and mysql installations are correct. They work fine. Though I am not sure if they are correctly configured to work with eachother. * Is there a way to verfy this? anyone has a shord php code that I can test to see if I can connect to dataabase with php please? * [zorlu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zorlu/) * (@zorlu) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205857) * One more thing. I can not see mysqld.exe in processes; however mysql is working, else I couldnt have connected to the database with control center * [zorlu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zorlu/) * (@zorlu) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205858) * I am able to connect to mysql database with asp. I did notice that Mysql ODBC 3.1 is installed so I use the following connection string with ASP: * “DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};SERVER=localhost;DATABASE=myDatabase;USER=myUsername; PASSWORD=myPassword;OPTION=3;” * do you suppose the problem is the Driver’s version with Word press? If so where can I modify it? * [jonathanoberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathanoberg/) * (@jonathanoberg) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205973) * I had this problem, and resolved it as follows: 1) Execute at command line: php -m shows: mysql not installed. 2) Search for php.ini shows: a php.ini file in the windows directory in addition to the php root. 3) Deleted php.ini file. 4) Re-execute php -m shows: mysql installed. * Good luck. * [elsandvik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elsandvik/) * (@elsandvik) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205976) * I had to remove “Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration” from my Windows 2003 Server before I could get WordPress to work. * Go to Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows Components > uncheck “Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration” Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) The topic ‘Install issues – PHP Installation missing MySQL’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 14 replies * 11 participants * Last reply from: [elsandvik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elsandvik/) * Last activity: [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-issues-php-installation-missing-mysql/#post-205976) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics