Re: *** the SOLUTION ***
Posted by:
Hipster
Date: December 25, 2005 12:13PM
If you are still having problems, check that it's working via the command-line, i.e. run a php script that calls into the mysql library (like mysql_connect()) - if that works, it means your php configuration is correct.
I found the trouble was file permissions. On Windows, I changed the service login from the local system account (which can be limiting, and even insecure?) to a limited user, e.g. www. Then I enabled read and execute permissions on the php install folder and apache2 install folder (make sure you propagate the permissions throughout the tree). This sorted it for me.
HTH!