Trouble installing SMF

[cloksin]

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?

[Johnnymushio]

MySQL

[cloksin]

MySQL is installed, that's the 'M' in 'LAMP'

[sAce]

are you using "localhost" as server name ? or something else ?

you could also try your  machine ip

[dawkcodave]

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.'

[JimM]

@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?

[cloksin]

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.