You're probably on the right track here. I was doing some googling and I came across someone running Apache/PHP/mySQL on a Windows 2000 computer and was getting the exact same error. They found out it was a Security issue since administrative rights were not being delivered to required applications. I think I have a similar issue. I recently upgraded from XP to Vista and I run the Apache Web Server/PHP/mySQL as a testing server on my home system for my personal websites which I host on commercial servers. I don't think I would want to revert back to XP due to this single issue, since everything else is working fine and I like to learn & get my hands on new technologies. I'd rather like to find out solutions to existing problems. I did see that Vista has (in some ways, quite unnecessarily) upped security, and I had a feeling this has something to do with what I'm facing. I'm just not sure how to make php.ini or the mySQL DLL extensions get administrative privileges while Apache tries to access them. Thanks. On 3/14/07 9:54 AM, "Tijnema !" <tijnema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 3/14/07, Rahul Sitaram Johari <sleepwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Ave, >> >> I recently configured & Installed PHP on my Windows Vista PC, running Apache >> 2.2 Web Server. MySQL 5 was also installed. >> >> Apache is running fine mySQL is running fine PHP is running fine. >> The problem is, I¹m getting this error when I try to run a PHP page which >> needs to connect to the mySQL Server: >> >> 'cannot load mysql extension, please check PHP Configuration'. >> >> I¹ve installed PHP on XP computers hundreds of times, so I¹m not exactly a >> newbie to this, but I¹m not sure if it¹s Vista causing the problem or I¹m >> doing something wrong. >> >> In my PHP.INI, I have the modules/extensions directory set to ³C:\php\ext² >> which contains all my modules (including the mySQL DLL and others). I also >> uncommented the mySQL Extension load from the PHP.INI file. I just can¹t >> figure out what the problem is. >> >> Do I need to copy the DLL files somewhere else in the system to make this >> work? Anyone else has this problem? >> >> Thanks. > > First of all i would NOT recommend for using Vista as a server, but of > course that's your own choice. I think the problem you are facing has > to do something with administrator rights, but i'm not sure.. > In Vista a lot of security has been added, and so a non priviliged > user cannot do a lot of things. Apache/Mysql are running from > unprivilged user i think, and they probabky have problems accessing > files due to the new security in vista. > I don't know a lot of Apache/PHP/MySQL on Windows, as i'm using a > Linux server. But you could, for testing only, run PHP/Apache from the > administrator account. > I believe the DLL is in the right place, i don't see why you should move it. > > Tijnema >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Rahul Sitaram Johari >> CEO, Twenty Four Seventy Nine Inc. >> >> W: http://www.rahulsjohari.com >> E: sleepwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> ³I morti non sono piu soli ... The dead are no longer lonely² >> >> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
