Re: Problems with phpbb and mysql vi dselect

[Angelo Bertolli <angelo@freeshell.org>]

Bill Warren wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have dselected phpbb2 and mysql. The database is done and works.
> When I go to http://mywebsite.com/phpbb the web page I get:
>
> The database module for the database you are using, MySQL, is not
> available. Please (re)install the php4-mysql package or if it's
> already installed, add extension=mysql.so to the relevant
> /etc/php//php.ini and restart the webserver if appropriate.
>
> I went to /etc/php4/apache/php.ini and removed the uncommented the
> section where it talks about Dynamic Extensions and
> extension=mysql.so. Then I restarted apache. Apache restarts with the
> following error:
>
> Starting web server: apache-perlPHP Warning: Unknown(): Invalid
> library (maybe not a PHP library) 'mysql.so' in Unknown on line 0
>
> In /etc/php4/apache/php.ini it has a place for the directory and it is
> correct. So, I don't know why it does not like it.
>
> Any ideas?
>

Well it said to make sure you had php4-mysql installed... do you have it
installed?

dpkg -l | fgrep mysql