Re: PHP + PostgreSQL

[Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 05:17, dodol garut wrote:
> I've techtables installed in my box but it doesn't
> wanna work. someone in this room told me that it
> because PHP doesn't compiled with PostgreSQL. Well, i
> wonder...As a trully stupid debian newbie, all i did
> when installing PHP4 to support PostgreSQl is just
> 'apt-get install php4-pgsql'. that's it.
> or should i compile php4 from source so it will
> support postgresql ??? if that so, why there's a
> debian package for it ? (what the ...)

That's good and necessary as a first step.

Now you need to find out whether PHP is attempting a connection to
PostgreSQL.  If it isn't, it's a PHP or Apache problem.  If it is, it
may be a PostgreSQL authentication problem.

Oliver Elphick