[funkyprem]

Anyone had any joy setting this up? Had it working perfectly on my old server but someone set it up for me.

Followed a number of tutorials to the letter but to no avail so far.

Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration.

This is what I get so far. If someone knows how to fix this quickly, I'm happy to pay for this knowledge.

Cheers,
Prem.

[pgo]

In your php.ini (usually toward the bottom) there should be a call to php5_mysql.dll or whatever.

Then, your PHP directory should have a file called libmysql.dll and your extensions folder should have that php5_mysql.dll or whatever it's called.

Try copying libmysql.dll into the WINDOWS/system32 directory, restart IIS.

That's what I had to do for Apache. Windows needs that DLL in its system directory. If you can't get an extension to call, try finding a libextension.dll in your PHP directory and copying that as above.

Fair warning, PHP/MySQL on IIS is a pain in the ass for some reason. In my experience.

[funkyprem]

thanks for the detailed response pat. no joy though.

I knew it was a pain in the ass as it took my mate about a week of faffing about before he got it working the last time. unfortunately he never got round to telling me how he did it!

[funkyprem]

FYI I found this which solved my problems and woes (obv there was a lot more than this). I think it was steps 5 and 6 that were the sticklers.

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