PHP and MySQL RPMS problem

Anon

Hi
I've installed all the software on RedHat 7.1 and they all work fine except that PHP does not recognize any MySQL functions.

I was advised to re-compile PHP but as I have installed using RPMS and I'm rather new to Linux that's a little tricky.

Can anyone tell me what to do?

Much appreciated

Nick

Anon

🙂

Anon

I've got the same problem 🙂

What did you do?

regard

Georg

Anon

Well,
after much messin', swearin', and pulling of hair I decided to ditch the countless tutorials and apply a little intuition.

RedHat may have not compiled the RPM with PHP but surely it can't be that hard right?

First I re-installed the system as a custom install making sure to choose the webserver pakages and SQL (i think it just installs postgre) etc to make sure my messin' hadn't ruined the default setup.

Then I installed MySQL in this order

mysql
devel
client
server

(I dont have the exact names in front of me)

from the RPMS dir on disk 2

rpm -Uvh package.rpm (dont just click 'em)

Then you can install the php-mysql-****
from the same place in the same way and all will be groovey.

I've done this from memory as I'm in Win currently and as to a novice as that's what I am.

I hope it helps so please let me know!

Best of luck

Nick