Well, I have been at this for about 9 hours now.
Some things I have learned. When it says you need MySQL version 4.1 or greater, don't use the latest version (5 something).
Same with PHP, they dropped the MySQL extensions and you have to manually put them in.
Also learned threads 6.5.5 will not work with the latest MySQL.
Knowing all of this up front would have saved me at least 4 hours today, it needs to be put in the documentation.
Now, so here I am. I uninstalled PHP and MySQL and installed older version.
I'm now running MySQL 4.1.20 and PHP 4.1.1. The phpmyAdmin I downloaded is 2.6.4 because 2.8.2 doesn't work with the older MySQL/PHP.
Does this so far sound about right?
I can't remember if I installed PHP or MySQL first, but neither gave me an error message.
For the life of me I can't get phpmyadmin to work (it keeps prompting me for a user log in when I try to hit the index.php page) and the threads install.php page gives a failure on the database check page.
I can get the GUI that comes with MySQL to log in and using the same log in name doesn't seem to work.
Just for the record, I did set a root password and I also created another "super user" with the same access as root. I have not created any other databases/tables/etc.
This is on a W2K server.
Can someone give me a 1, do this, 2 do that, type of thing that actually works? I think they are leaving out what you need to do after installing MySQL. I also am not sure if PHP is installed correctly. I can see PHP pages, but when I installed the lastest PHP/MySQL/phpadmin it gave me an error about MySQL extensions not installed. Then I found out the extensions aren't a default install anymore in the latest version of PHP. This is one reason I rolled back to the older version as well. However, with some research I found with the newest PHP you have to go find the dll files and install them manually. Do you have to do this with the older versions? I only see 1 dll file in the php folder and there isn't an extensions folder. I did try the trick of copying the libmyphp.dll file into the windows/system32 directory and that did not help. I also have the path set in the environment variables.
Like I said, it is hour 9 and I'm getting a little tired. I appreciate some help if anyone has some.
Fred
