jwkelly

This peoblem was related to my server’s settings (SAMBAR). I had installed WordPress as a folder on an existing virtual host and I could never get the Permalinks to find the .htaccess file. The host had a default page pointing to an HTML file so the WordPress index.php file was not being used.
I moved the WordPress install to it’s own root folder and set the default file to index.php and now everything words perfectly (out of the box install)

run the test program <?phpinfo();?> and look for

Configuration file (PHP.INI) path +
extension_dir +
include_path

Mine were wrong and I had the same error message you have……

It indicates that that PHP can’t find the INI file. Open PHP.INI and read the note about this [about PHP.INI]. I set the environment varible PHPRC and everythings works as expected. THE [MySQL manual install] gives details about this setting.