php loads slow help

[sbinkerd1]

I copied my joomla site from a WIN XP system running Apache 1.3.3 and PHP 4.1. after changing the configuration.php file to reflect the correct file structure, it seems to want to load.

 

I get no errors, and the browser acts like it is downloading the site. this can go on forever with no output to the browser.

 

If I try to go to the administrator backend, it will bring up the log in page perfect (this is in HTML). When I log in, it will eventually (after 15-20 minutes) show some of the amin area, although not all the images load.

 

I tried a fully HTML site with no PHP and it loads fine, so obviously this is a php problem, but since I am getting no errors I have no clue where to start to rectify the EXTREMELY SLOW loading of the site. I am not new to PHP, but still consider myself a noob.

 

I am running a lamp server on the latestest distro of Ubuntu (hardy). all the software is new as of 2 days ago.

 

any help is greatly appreciated.

[trq]

Have you checked the apache error logs?

[sbinkerd1]

to be honest. I considered this a PHP issue and never considered it would throw an error into the appache error log, especially since it wasn't doing anything no errors, nothing.

 

I did find this in the apache error logs:

 

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\\PHP/php_mysql.dll'

 

it appears that it is looking in C:\\. probably because this install of joomla came from a windows apache server. I need to find out where it is calling that from and change it to the correct directory.

 

any ideas before I stumble on?

[corbin]

Look for the extension_dir directive in php.ini as that's where the c:\\PHP is most likely coming from.

[trq]

Unless you copied your php.ini file from the windows server there should be no reference to any dll files within your php.ini. Maybe its being dynamically loaded somewhere within the joomla application?

 

Id'e check your php.ini first, but failing that, running the following from within your document root will find any reference to mysql.dll within your joomla app and let you know exactly where its being called.

 

grep -nHr mysql.dll .