php, MySQL and Debian

[Kareem Shehata]

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 00:38, William O'Higgins wrote:
> I'm at my wit's end with this problem.  What I want, is for php4 and
> MySQL and apache 1.3 to interact.  What I've got is this:
> 
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in ...
> 
> I know that this is probably because php4 was installed before
> php4-mysql, but I can't seem to fix it.  If I try to remove php4 and
> php4-mysql and install them in a different order, apt tries to give me
> apache2, which I don't want.  There *must* be a way to alter a
> configuration file to get php to acknowledge mysql, but I can't see
> what's missing.  php.ini looks completely in order.
> 
> Any suggestions?

I remember just doing a number of apt-get's and everything working, and
I think I installed mySQL after PHP too.  You could try apt-get install
--reinstall on php4 and/or php4-mysql, though dpkg-reconfigure is
probably a better bet.  I'd also check Fraser's suggestion first.

Good luck!

Kareem

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