I have a local copy of my blog in my machine, just to test if I need to do some modification to the skin or to some pages of the blog, everything is always gone ok, just installing php, mysql and the blog works great.
Today I need to reinstall php and mysql because my machine was formatted 3 month ago, I thought it will be a quick process, but I had this problem
First the php installer fails with an error like "one required script fails to run", no clue on what went wrong, the installer aborts.
I tried to install an older version, the installer went ok but when I launch the site I got the error
Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress
I never got this error before, I googled it and found a lot of solutions, but everything in my system seems to be ok, so I run phpinfo() to see my actual configuration and I found that the ini file is searched into c:windows directory and not in the c:phpphp.ini, but nothing works even with the php.ini in the c:windows directory.
After a long search I found the solution, I need also to copy the libmysql.dll library to c:windowssystem32 and restart IIS.
I must admit that the last time I did not have all these problems….this time it was a little odyssey.
Alk.
