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20071112

WordPress Solution
When installing WordPress for a trial blog at our office, we ran into a common problem, but turned out to have an otherwise unmentioned solution. After getting everything installed, we were thrown the error that "Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress."

This was our first time installing PHP 5 (our other installs were long ago and used PHP 4), so apparently we forgot select MySQL and MySQLi to be added at install.

Ran the PHP installer again on Repair, and still got the error message.

The WordPress Codex has many postings about this, but none that succeeded for us.

We realized after many frustrating minutes that the PHP.ini file is not necessarily read on the fly, the way the MySQL config file is these days. We quickly ran iisreset (because our website is not so high-traffic that it can't be reset in early morning) and all was right with the world.

Labels: development, frustration, open source, PHP, troubleshooting