From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 22:45:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 630ED106566C for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:45:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from outbound.ifdnrg.com (outbound.ifdnrg.com [193.200.98.138]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF378FC17 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:45:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.64] (188-221-77-161.zone12.bethere.co.uk [188.221.77.161]) (authenticated bits=0) by outbound.ifdnrg.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0DMjtbj042384 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:45:56 GMT (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Message-ID: <4D2F80A2.1050607@ifdnrg.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:45:54 +0000 From: Paul Macdonald User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20110110212143.GA8276@thought.org> <4D2D7C3E.50404@ifdnrg.com> <20110112195347.GA21353@thought.org> <201101121758.12869.rjgonzale@estrads.com.ar> <20110112203503.GA22381@thought.org> <4D2E32AF.4000008@ifdnrg.com> <20110113001854.GA55758@thought.org> <48221D4A-A7DB-4EE5-B6CC-670DCFA68BAD@panix.com> <20110113211406.GA15406@thought.org> <4D2F71D0.1080307@ifdnrg.com> <20110113223610.GA17091@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20110113223610.GA17091@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: Which php?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:45:57 -0000 On 13/01/2011 22:36, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:42:40PM +0000, Paul Macdonald wrote: >>>> did you follow the procedure in ports/UPDATING about autotools? >>> I followed the suggestion from Mike Powell and that resolved the >>> problem with autoconf-2.68. I'm trying the others now. See if >>> it has any affect on mail/php5-imap. >> you probably won't need imap support in php, so you could just >> deselect this in make config. >> >> Paul. >> > > Here is what message is posted to the top of > www.thought.org/blog/ where I cp'd -rp the whole of wordpress > files. > > Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension > which is required by WordPress.o > > wHen i looked at the directory with firefox3 > file:///usr/local/www/wordpress, there was a similar complain. > I did not believe it--because I *do* have mysql installed. > Moreover, I set up a "wordpress" database and wordpress_user, > and all the rest of it. > > So far I am heading into the third day of this: trying to get > the wordpress port working on my site. (It strikes me as more > than a bit ironic that one of the things in the wp description > is that it looks SO simple. Not my experience!) > > Question:: which MySQL should I have installed to get the port > working? I am been debugging this stuff bit-by-bit. So far, > I've upgraded the entire 700 ports since last October. I have > kept ``ethic'' to be a server: DNS, mail, and web. Be great to > host wordpress working so any help will be v much appreciated! > > gary > > its the php mysql extension it's moaning about, not the mysql server. what do you get from pkg_version -Iv | grep php5 i wouldn't normally do it like this, but in your case i'd be tempted to cd /usr/ports/databases/php5-mysql make install clean cross fingers restart apache