WordPress Install Stalls

  • shoff

    (@shoff)


    18 years, 11 months ago

    Ok.

    Here is the deal.
    I am trying to install WordPress on my IIS 6 server that has PHP and MySql Installed.

    The files are installed in the following directory structure

    root\blog\

    So to run the install file, I go to root\blog\wp-admin\install.php

    I get the following message:

    Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.

    I have tried altering my php.ini file, but that just ended up with me uncommenting the mysql dlls and then I found that my install didn’t seem to have placed them anywhere. I think the problem could be that the extension aren’t installed at all on my server.

    Furthermore, I was able to find the extensions in a zip fiel but I’m not sure how to reference them or where I should put them. all help is appreciated.

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  • Thread Starter shoff

    (@shoff)

    18 years, 11 months ago

    I have since been able to get to a new set of error messages. I still have the old one but I have a new one in addition.

    I tried to follow the following advice:
    http://apacheguide.org/wordpress.php

    Which seems to be what people think solves the issue:

    Note: If you get an error “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.”, try the following:

    Open C:\php\php.ini and make the following changes, and then restart Apache.

    Line 647
    extension=php_mysql.dll

    Line 743
    mysql.default_host = localhost

    Line 746
    mysql.default_user = root

    In any case, this only produced the following error:

    Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘./php_mysql.dll’ – The specified module could not be found. in Unknown on line 0

    So, it seems that it can’t find the extension files. The extension folder in my .ini folder is set up as follows:
    extension_dir = “./”

    Is this a default? To me it seems like it is saying to look one directory back to find the extension dlls.

    In any case, my PHP folder that contains the .ini folder is found in C:\Program Files\PHP. It seems like one directory back just tells PHP to look in program files for the extensions. The extensions are obviously not in that folder.

    Any ideas?

    newstyle

    (@newstyle)

    18 years, 11 months ago

    Your problem is almost certainly the php.ini is specifying the extensions directory wrong. Usually the php installer puts the extension files here:
    c:\program files\php\ext
    or here
    c:\program files\php\extensions

    Take a look at your hard drive and see where those extensions are actually installed and put the full path into the extension_dir property. That should fix your problem

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