New subject: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.15.1 on Vista Home Premium Editioninstall error

12 Sep 2009

Has anyone got Mediawiki to work on Windows Vista Home Premium Edition?
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Charles Knell
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Thank you for your reply.

...
  in the PHP.ini file that gets loaded, there is a
setting that specifies 
 where the extensions are...
 For example on my system (PHP 5.3 installed via WAMPServer) it is ...
 extension_dir = "e:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.0/ext/"  (Im running on Windows)

o My installation is running on (or failing to run on) Windows Vista Home Premium.
o My PHP installation is at D:\php and the extensions are in D:\php\ext.
o The PATH system variable shows that D:\php\ext is included.
o In the php.ini file, the extension_dir is set with this entry: extension_dir=D:\php\ext

...
  Also remember that there may be several PHP.ini files

o My computer has exactly one php.ini file. It is located at d:\php\php.ini. I have
verified this by using the file explorer's find file function.

...
  If you enter the following in your webbrowser,
you'll see what the PHP 
 info is being used for the webserver (which is what matters to MediaWiki). 
o This reports that the Loaded Configuration File is D:php\php.ini.
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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     Jon.G.Bartlett(a)gsk.com
Sent:     Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:15:14 +0100
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Charles,

in the PHP.ini file that gets loaded, there is a setting that specifies 
where the extensions are...
For example on my system (PHP 5.3 installed via WAMPServer) it is ...
extension_dir = "e:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.0/ext/"  (Im running on Windows)

Also remember that there may be several PHP.ini files - one that the PHP 
command line uses, and one that Apache (etc) uses.
If you enter the following in your webbrowser, you'll see what the PHP 
info is being used for the webserver (which is what matters to MediaWiki).
http://localhost/?phpinfo=1
(PS, replace localhost with the name of your webserver if not local).

I hope this helps,
Jon

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cknell(a)onebox.com wrote:
...
  Tell me if I understand correctly.

 In order to use MySQL, PHP must load the extension php_mysql.dll.

 This file is located in the "ext" subdirectory one level down from the 
root of the php install directory.
...

 In order to load this file, the directory must be in the search path. On  my
computer, the directory is d:\php\ext
...

 If I see "d:\php\ext" in my search path ( I type "echo %PATH%" and 
<Enter> at a command window prompt to see it.), then PHP should be able to 
load this .dll.

I don't think php does it, although if it's in the PATH php may also get 
it.
PHP configuration is at file php.ini
Php should load php_mysql.dll when you have extension=php_mysql.dll on
the appropiate section there.
It expects to find that file at the folder pointed by extension_dir

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