From: steve dot warr at hemdean dot plus dot com Operating system: Win32/2k PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: Setting up PATH variable correctly
Description: ------------ There are numerous claims online about getting a 'php_mysql.dll - module not found' error message. I basically encountered this problem, where the command line 'php -m' showed that mysql was getting loaded ok, but my IIS webservice kept producing the 'module not found' error message. After a very, very painful day of tracing through the install procedure, I eventually found that the problem was related not php_mysql.dll itself, but to the dependent 'libMySQL.dll'. I had followed the install doc to the letter and added 'c:\<php_install_dir>' to my PATH variable. However, the doc fails to mention that you **must** add this path as part of the 'system variables' and not to the 'user variables' section. This explains why the command line worked, but not the web service. Obvious really when you know, but really difficult to debug. One extra line of text in the install doc pointing out this gotcha would have saved a lot of frustration. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=33236&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33236&r=mysqlcfg
