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By tradermike on
I will pay someone $100 to help me install drupal on to my server space if they can do it within 48 hours. I'm using modwest hosting and version 6 of drupal. I've setup a database to use with drupal, but keep getting this error during the drupal installation:
"In your ./sites/default/settings.php file you have configured Drupal to use a mysql server, however your PHP installation currently does not support this database type."
I have several other drupal sites running with this webhost and they support mysql and php so not sure what is going on or how to fix this. I'm stuck and figure someone who has seen this before and knows more than I do - which isn't hard with this stuff - could probably fix this quickly. I've always gotten others to install drupal for me and have no familiarity with hard core programming.
I just need someone to fix this part of the installation. I can add the modules I need and everything else.
Please contact me and if you have paypal I can actually pay you immediately and send you the ftp and control panel login info. Thanks for your help. Maybe you need to delete my database and start over. That is fine if you need to do that. Just trying to get this installed far enough so I can start working with drupal.
Once I have someone working on this I'll update this thread. Thanks for your consideration.
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hi
Hi ,
check whether this helps.
http://drupal.org/node/100124
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Jaanlo - The how to site
tried this
I tried adding these two lines:
extension=php_mysql.dll
extension=php_mysqli.dll
to a php.ini file I put in my root directory. Didn't do anything though. Maybe I didn't do it right.
php.ini
dll are used in windows. if you run apache in linux (most hosting companies do), then you need to tweak .so extensions not dll.
For linux, it will usually be a shared library
extension="sqlite.so"
extension=msql.so
(check the library name from your hosting provider)
You mentioned There are other installations working fine. in that case, check for "php.ini" in the document root of a working installation. if you find it simply copy it.
If not, try to talk to your hosting company. Ask them for a proper php.ini and ask them where you can copy it.
this mainly depends on your hosting provider. some allow you to use php.ini to configure a subset of options.
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Jaanlo - The how to site
1st thought: Contact the
1st thought: Contact the hosting company. That error sounds like the PHP portions to work with MySQL are missing or are not enabled.
Not an expert, but maybe that will help.
thanks for everyone's help
Got it working - just copied one of my old installs into the directory, made a new database and got it to work. Thanks everyone.