I had the same problem until i found out that the distribution itself did not installed the required package php-mysql.rpm. Find it in one of the cd's and install it. Matt Symes wrote: > Hello, > > I've got PHP 4 working under Apache 2 on Linux Redhat 8 using the packages > that came with the Redhat 8 installation. > > I can't get PHP to work with MySQL however. myphpadmin says that it cannot > load the MySQL extension. When I check my PHP settings with phpinfo I see > that it was compiled with the '--with-mysql=shared,/usr' option. I've tried > uncommenting the extension=mysql.so line in php.ini but that doesn't work. > > Any ideas. I'm quite new to this game (although an IT professional in other > areas) so it's quite possible I'm missing something trivial. > > Thanks in anticipation, > > - Matt Symes > > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php