Re: Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.

[Cameron Childress <cameronc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Looks like I resolved my own problem.  I'd manually configured Apache's
httpd.conf file and misspelled the PHPIniDir.  Oddly, PHP didn't complain
and Apache started without error, even with the misconfiguration.  Working
now.  Thanks.

-Cameron

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Cameron Childress <cameronc@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Lobbing what I hope is a totally easy softball question here.  I've
> Googled around for the answer, I've uninstalled and re-installed, I've
> tinkered with the PHP.ini file, copied files all over the place.  Still
> having this problem, so here's my plea for help...
>
> I'm new to PHP, and new to Wordpress, but not new to web development.  I
> have an existing Apache 2.2 installation on Windows 7 and am trying to add
> Wordpress to it.  To support Wordpress, I've installed PHP.  I used the PHP
> Windows installer (VC6) and connected up to my existing Apache installation
> just fine.  Ran a test.php script and Apache/PHP are playing nice -
> everything works.
>
> When I installed PHP, I selected the MSSQL and MySQL extensions.  I have
> verified that the extention dll files are in the /ext directory.
>
> I also have verified that the php.ini file contain these entries:
> [PHP_MYSQL]
> extension=php_mysql.dll
> [PHP_MYSQLI]
> extension=php_mysqli.dll
>
> Lastly, via my Google searches I've found that perhaps 'libmysql.dll'
> needs to be copied into the 'windows/system32' directory, so I tried that.
>  Restarted Apache, restarted the entire computer, still getting the error.
>
> I imagine there has to be a very simple reason this PHP installation isn't
> working out of the box.  What am I missing?  I am still getting the error
> "Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is
> required by WordPress."  Should I be looking at WordPress help instead for
> this error?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> -Cameron
>
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