Using Ubuntu you just need to install the php5-mysql package. No compiling required.
Rod On 07/05/2010 03:35 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Dear LUGOD, > > My Linux installation came with Apache, MySQL, and PHP working; however, > only Apache and PHP are working together. From Apache I can execute PHP; > however, PHP doesn't connect to MySQL, which is running. > > I'm trying to install mediawiki which requires all three to work > together. The mediawiki installation process has me executing: > http://localhost/mediawiki/config/index.php > > However, the resulting HTML page contains this error: > # PHP 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10 installed > Could not find a suitable database driver! > > * For MySQL, compile PHP using --with-mysql, or install the mysql.so > module > > This seems to require for me to reinstall PHP from source or to install > a dynamically linked object module. I'm going through the steps to > install PHP from source, but it seems to want me to install Apache > first: > http://us.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php > > Look for the snippet that says: > cd ../php-NN > ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql > make > make install > > I don't have apxs. "locate apxs" returns nothing. So googling it sends > me here: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/apxs.html > > This is too far from where I want to be. Any hints? Thank you. > > -- > Tim Riley > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
