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Ok, I think I figured it out myself. It seems as long as you put this line in httpd.conf PHPIniDir "C:/PHP" LoadFile "C:/PHP/libmysql.dll" LoadModule php5_module "C:/PHP/php5apache2_2.dll" The line that was preventing it from recognising and loading MySQL from Apache was LoadFile "C:/PHP/libmysql.dll" which I added in. This after hours of frustration. I found it because there was a similar example with postgresql and I adapted it for MySQL. This should really go in the phpbb3 FAQ for windows installs if I can ever find out where they keep it.

I'm using Apache 2.2 on windows 7. As far as I can tell both Apache, PHP 5.2.17 have installed successfully. I am running an older version of MySQL 5.1 which I have had installed for a long time. When I run C:\> php -m I get the following output: C:\Users\Glenn>php -m bcmath calendar com_dotnet ctype date dom filter ftp hash iconv json libxml mysql mysqli odbc pcre Reflection session SimpleXML sockets SPL standard tokenizer wddx xml xmlreader xmlwriter zlib [Zend Modules] So I am presuming this means that mysql is enabled in my php install. However when I try to create a fresh installation of phpbb3 it will show the installation screens but it says that mysql is not an available option. I get the same problem when looking at the output for phpinfo(); It seems as though mysql is not listed by phpinfo() when invoked from apache. Is it possible that the precompiled binaries for windows have somehow disabled mysql support??? This is part of the output from phpinfo when run from the command line: Directive => Local Value => Master Value mysql.allow_persistent => On => On mysql.connect_timeout => 60 => 60 mysql.default_host => no value => no value mysql.default_password => no value => no value mysql.default_port => no value => no value mysql.default_socket => no value => no value mysql.default_user => no value => no value mysql.max_links => Unlimited => Unlimited mysql.max_persistent => Unlimited => Unlimited mysql.trace_mode => Off => Off mysqli MysqlI Support => enabled Client API library version => 5.0.51a Client API header version => 5.0.51a MYSQLI_SOCKET => /tmp/mysql.sock Directive => Local Value => Master Value mysqli.default_host => no value => no value mysqli.default_port => 3306 => 3306 mysqli.default_pw => no value => no value mysqli.default_socket => no value => no value mysqli.default_user => no value => no value mysqli.max_links => Unlimited => Unlimited mysqli.reconnect => Off => Off The whole output can be seen here: [color=#181818][font=Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', monospace, serif][size=3][background=rgb(255, 255, 239)]http://pastebin.com/embed_iframe.php?i=sBADc4CV[/background][/size][/font][/color] [color=#181818][font=Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', monospace, serif][size=3][background=rgb(255, 255, 239)]Any ideas why this should work from the command line but not from inside Apache?[/background][/size][/font][/color] [color=#181818][font=Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', monospace, serif][size=3][background=rgb(255, 255, 239)]Thanks in advance[/background][/size][/font][/color] [color=#181818][font=Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', monospace, serif][size=3][background=rgb(255, 255, 239)]KiwiHeretic[/background][/size][/font][/color]