[wplug] MySQL and phpBBS

[Wise, Jeremey]

Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)

And I looked into a few articles about enabling phpMySQL client and it
looks a but complex. http://us3.php.net/mysqli

There seems to be a few front ends for management of this but they are
all referring to MySQL4 or greater which FC3 does not support.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php 

And there are reasons I went with FC3 at the time (clustering was the
primary reason).


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran at potentialtech.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 11:12 AM
To: General user list
Cc: Wise, Jeremey
Subject: Re: [wplug] MySQL and phpBBS

"Wise, Jeremey" <jeremey.wise at agilysys.com> wrote:
> 
> What I am trying to accomplish:
> I have been coding a webpage. I want to now add a Bulletin Board
> interface to add value to the whole website as it is for a game and
our
> guild needs to be able to post comments and tricks.
> 
> What I have tried: 
> 1) I have downloaded phpbbs and copied it into
> /var/www/html/mywebsite/Members/BullitenBoard/phpBB2
> 2) I installed:
> perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9003-5
> mysql-3.23.58-16.FC3.1
> mysql-server-3.23.58-16.FC3.1
> 
> 3) Loaded up Webmin and started MySQL via the webmin MySQL module
> 4) Added a database "mywebsite"
> 5) Added a database user called "mywebsite" with ALL permissions and
> same password as the MySQL admin account (for now:>)
> 6) Verify that php is enabled on the server. Part of quick phpbbs
quick
> install notes:
> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/build-a-phpbb-forum
> 7) Opened up the wizard to install and configure phpbb
> "hppt://10.0.0.100/Members/BullitenBoard/phpBB2/install/install.php
> 8) Input all the references to account, host (localhost), database
name
> etc.... but when I click "install" I get error "The PHP configuration
on
> your server doesn't support the database type that you specified"

You don't have the MySQL client for php installed/enabled.

Your distro/packaging method will determine what you need to do to get
this installed.  If you post more details about your distro/packaging,
I'm sure someone on the list will know the exact steps.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com