Re: "cannot load mysql extension" - PHP Installation on Vista/Apache

On 3/14/07, Rahul Sitaram Johari <sleepwalker@rahulsjohari.com> wrote:

Ave, I recently configured & Installed PHP on my Windows Vista PC, running Apache 2.2 Web Server. MySQL 5 was also installed. Apache is running fine ­ mySQL is running fine ­ PHP is running fine. The problem is, I¹m getting this error when I try to run a PHP page which needs to connect to the mySQL Server: 'cannot load mysql extension, please check PHP Configuration'. I¹ve installed PHP on XP computers hundreds of times, so I¹m not exactly a newbie to this, but I¹m not sure if it¹s Vista causing the problem or I¹m doing something wrong. In my PHP.INI, I have the modules/extensions directory set to ³C:\php\ext² which contains all my modules (including the mySQL DLL and others). I also uncommented the mySQL Extension load from the PHP.INI file. I just can¹t figure out what the problem is. Do I need to copy the DLL files somewhere else in the system to make this work? Anyone else has this problem? Thanks.

First of all i would NOT recommend for using Vista as a server, but of course that's your own choice. I think the problem you are facing has to do something with administrator rights, but i'm not sure.. In Vista a lot of security has been added, and so a non priviliged user cannot do a lot of things. Apache/Mysql are running from unprivilged user i think, and they probabky have problems accessing files due to the new security in vista. I don't know a lot of Apache/PHP/MySQL on Windows, as i'm using a Linux server. But you could, for testing only, run PHP/Apache from the administrator account. I believe the DLL is in the right place, i don't see why you should move it.. Tijnema

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