Local server installations, urgent help needed.

[Porte]

Hello guys,

I decided to run a private basic local server to test php, scripts, etc. on my PC. heres what I got:

Abyss Web Server - which is pretty basic for beginners, and can do the job.
Here's what I did:

I installed the server, and its running and I can view http://localhost successfully. No problems with this,

Moving to the problems: I need to install php and mysql.

For PHP

I got this zip file from php.net php-5.0.4-Win32.zip which should contain all required files and extensions.

I unzipped this folder to a directory called php which contains a few folders, few dlls, some stuff I don't know.

The Abyss comes already with documentation to install php: go to the directory where you have installed PHP and click on php.exe if you have installed PHP 4 or php-cgi.exe if you have installed PHP 5.

I did this, and I saw D:\server\php\php-cgi.exe php
All Done with my local server.

I can go to http://localhost and I can see my php executed <? echo "Test"; ?> .. So this means php is working, but I didn't do anything with php.ini yet, or where can I find php.ini or where to place it... I only got 2 php.ini one php.ini-dist and another php.ini-recommended.

That's for php, please help with this part about the ini even its working fine.
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For MysQL - this is the main problem

I unzipped "mysql-4.1.12a-win32" and I found a Setup, i run it..
I installed it complete to D:/server/mysql, remember php is installed D:/server/php and abyss D:/server/Abyss Web Server

Back to mysql setup-- I did all in the setup, then configured it and now mysql runs as a windows start service. I also choosed root password, port, max conn, all done. So I should have php and mysql installed and running.

The problem related to mysql is that whenever I use a mysql function in my php code and when I try to open up phpMyadmin it gives me error

Cannot load mysql extension
check php configuration


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nutshell,

I have listed 2 problems in this thread, one related to php.ini I don't know which one is the main php.ini and should i rename it? or place it in windows?

also I don't know how load all mysql extensions to work with database driven scripts in php as for now it gives me an error: cannot load mysql extensions

Any helpful ideas, please assist!

Thank you,
Ahmed

Oh after some research figured it.. I had to rename the php.ini-recommended to php.ini and change the extensions directory inside it where extensions reside. Then i had to start a sql dll file as a startup windows service, and last thing i had to remove the ; beisde the extension in php.ini to load it automatically.

It works now guys, so thanks anyway.

Please close this..

 

[abdulmueid]

Regarding php.ini:
Copy the php.ini-dist file to your C:\Windows\System32 directory and rename it php.ini

Regarding MySQL:
Look into your mysql directory and there you will find a file named my-small.cnf. Rename this file into my.cnf and copy it into D drive, so that it becomes D:\my.cnf

EDIT: All the extension-specific variables related to the MySQL extension should be in the [MySQL] section of the php.ini file. Edit them according to your MySQL configuration.

Hope this helps.