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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?