I'm trying to build an SMF site and I'm running into a problem. My server is running a LAMP stack, but when I try to the SMF install.php I get this error:
The installer was unable to detect MySQL support in PHP. Please ask your host to ensure that PHP was compiled with MySQL, or that the proper extension is being loaded.
I am the host, and the extensions are loaded in the php.ini file. What am I missing?
MySQL
MySQL is installed, that's the 'M' in 'LAMP'
are you using "localhost" as server name ? or something else ?
you could also try your machine ip
I had the same problem. I was able to solve it by copying the file 'libmySQL.dll' from the MySQL /bin directory into the /PHP directory. Hope this helps.
Now, I just have to solve this:
'The installer was unable to access the "forum" database.'
@cloksin - please post a link to a phpinfo sheet. That will tell us if you have installed support for MySQL on your server. What is phpinfo.php? (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=18250.0)
I blew out the server and started from scratch, I'm using Centos 5.5 so I just used the yum commands to install MySQL, Apache, and PHP. I am up and running now, thanks.