PHPMyAdmin won't load

[sharpnova]

I am running an Apache server on windows and php 5.2.5 and MySQL 5 are working fine.

 

I tried installing phpmyadmin. My config.inc.php file looks like this:

 

<?php

/*

* Generated configuration file

* Generated by: phpMyAdmin 2.11.7-rc1 setup script by Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com>

* Version: $Id: setup.php 10748 2007-10-10 07:30:59Z cybot_tm $

* Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:38:53 GMT

*/

 

/* Servers configuration */

$i = 0;

 

/* Server localhost (http) [1] */

$i++;

$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = 'http://www.sharpnova.com/phpmyadmin/';

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'http://sharpnova.com';

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql';

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false;

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'http';

?>

 

When I try to load localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php i get the following error: "Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration."

 

i have gone into c:\program files\php and edited the php.ini and removed the semicolon from extension=msql.dll

 

But I still get the same error.. I'm completely clueless at this point.

[trq]

This really doesn't have anything to do with Apache. Have you read this thread? Made sure you restarted apache (and intern reloaded php's configuration)?

[sharpnova]

Yep. I restart apache with every change i make.

 

[wildteen88]

 

When I try to load localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php i get the following error: "Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration."

 

i have gone into c:\program files\php and edited the php.ini and removed the semicolon from extension=msql.dll

 

But I still get the same error.. I'm completely clueless at this point.

msql.dll is not for mysql. You should be enabling the php_mysql.dll extension.

[sharpnova]

If anyone else is having this problem, there are some of the inter-versions of PHP that don't work with phpmyadmin. I didn't even have an ext directory, nor was there even a php_mysql.dll on my hard drive.

 

My advice (and how I solved this problem): go XAMPP. It makes life easier in a world where apache and php become needlessly hard to use.

[wildteen88]

I presume you used the installer to install PHP on Windows before hand. You should use the zipped binaries package instead the installer comes with limited files.