Please excuse my ignornace - install help

[ryanm]

Hi guys,


I get the following message browsing to the install.php in my local directory:


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.

Please, how do i enable mysql support?

thank you

Ryan

[Dannii]

Please contact your host, although it is quite likely they won't enable/install mysql for you if they haven't already.

[ryanm]

Im running this on my local machine!

Anyhow, I have got passed this stage.  I was running php5 instead of 4.


I now get the following message.

You're on a windows server, and some crucial files are not writable. Please ask your host to give write permissions to the user PHP is running under for the files in your SMF installation. The following files or directories need to be writable:
attachments
avatars
Packages
Packages/installed.list
Packages/server.list
Smileys
Themes
agreement.txt
Settings.php
Settings_bak.php
Click here to try this step again.

Remeber, I am not hosting this site with a third party.  I am running it thorugh php4 with iis on my local machine.  Any ideas?

Thank you

Ryan

[青山 素子]

In Explorer, go to the properties for each of the items it talks about and grant read andwrite permissions to the "Everyone" user (you may have to add that user if they aren't on the ACLs already).