Hi I wasn't the person that installed mysql on our box. I can tell you that the directory structure is not the way I'm used to seeing it. The bottom line is, when I compile php, php is not able to find the mysql install that we have. I'll get more specific. If I assume that mysql is installed in the "default" directory location (I have no idea what that is), php compiles properly. However, when I try and create a php page that connects to the db, it continually looks for the mysql.sock file under /tmp, which I believe is default. However, ours is in another location, so it would appear that the installation is not in the default location. So, I looked for the "mysql" exectuable (you know, the client program) and found it under /usr/bin. So when I configured php, this time I specified the directory as /usr/bin. This time, php didn't configure at all and complained that it couldn't find the headers. So, I looked on another machine where everything is intalled in one directory tree (I don't know why this wasn't done in the first place). and found a bunch of files that ended in .h. These should be the header files, I thought, and searched for those same files on the problem machine. I found only one copy of them and tried reconfiguring with this new directory. Same error message. At this point I'm stuck. It appears as though however did the install blasted different parts of the install all over the place (maybe they used an RPM?). Anyway, I don't know what to put for the mysql location. I wrote a php script with just the phpinfo function. Basically, everything is listed as "no value" for the mysql section, if that helps. Thanks in advance for any help that you guys can give. Armando __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -- PHP Install Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]