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1. lastadventurer
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello all,

   I'd appreciate some help with the following infamous error:

   "Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress."

   I'm running:

   WordPress 3.1
   PHP 5.3.5
   Apache 2.2 on Windows 7

   I have already:

   * Uncommented the relevant extensions in php.ini
   * Made sure the php directory is in the Windows path

   Any further suggestions for fixing it would be great.

   Thanks,

   LA

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   are you using wamp or xampp or what?

3. lastadventurer
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Neither, as far as I know. I didn't know they existed until you mentioned them - I simply downloaded and installed the Windows binaries for Apache, then MySQL, then PHP.

4. fonglh
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Did you install mySQL?

5. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   do this - works for me every time
   http://tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

6. lastadventurer
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   That did indeed seem to work just perfectly.

   Many, many thanks Samuel, you've really saved me a lot of frustration.

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