my php doesn’t find mysql

Put that error message in the search box (top right)

i’ve read about a hundred posts trying to find other windows users with the problem of this:

Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.

getting shoved down our throats. i have done some of the things that seem to have helped others, but didn’t work on my system. i’m getting frustrated with it actually. if MT is fine with php & mysql, why would wordpress be bitchy about some ‘missing database’. is this a perms issue? or an IIS issue? cuz, can’t be a database issue because IT HASN’T BEEN CREATED YET.

sorry, but i’m pulling my hair out over this.

leQ – what is your OS / WAMP setup ?

using IIS on XP pro.

and thanks!

what is WAMP? windows authentication?

I’m on XP Home – no IIS.

WAMP: Windows Apache Mysql Php

I have zero experience with IIS. I don’t know why you want to use IIS as opposed to anything else (unless it’s just because it is there ?) but I have experience – and totally recommend Xampp).
You can download it from here:
https://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
and it is incredibly easy to use – one click install.

You will need to stop IIS though as they compete for ports.

Sound useful ?

i just installed it, and will let ya know how it goes. i hate to feel that wordpress beat me, hence i feel compelled to get it working for some inane reason. i just really like the look of wordpress as opposed to the other engines out there.

i can’t tell you how much i appreciate your pointing me to xampp.

thank you thank you thank you.
you are the man (or woman)

I have just done the famous 5 minute install to my ISP’s system. But of course WordPress announces it cannot find MySQL. It says: “Error establishing a database connection.” I’m not surprised, I know nothing about MySql and there’s apparently nothing in the docs. I am a non-nerd uploading it to my ISP… how and what am I supposed to know about MySQL?
Rgds
Martin

You’ll have to ask your ISP about how to access MySQL on their servers.

My ISP Says:

>>>>>
accessing mySQL database from PHP
To contact a MySQL server, you need the following four items:

The host name;
The database name;
The user name;
The password.

The function to make contact is mysql-connect:
<<<<<

That’s it (ISP is Vevida.nl)

Does that help?

Rgds

Martin

Those are exactly the four items you need to put into your config file. If your host offers a database in your account there should be somewhere information about those 4 things ??
If you have them correctly in the wp-config.php file, you don’t really need to know anything about MySQL…

But is the database name e.g. the same as my account/domain?

(That was a quesiton for other users of Vevida…)

mcleaver, you’ll have better luck asking server-specific questions to your hosting provider’s support dept.