Installing Drupal Using Postgres 8.3

Johnywoo - January 7, 2009 - 19:48

I posted this in reply but figure I would create a new thread in hope of someone having the same issue.

I have come across an issue where drupal (and or PHP) cannot recognize there is a database environment in which I am using Postgres. To set this up I am using Apache 2.0; Postgres 8.3; Drupal 6.8 and PHP 5.2.8.

When I run the install I choose to include the Postgres extension so that it includes a php_pgsql.dll file in the ext directory and adds '[PHP_PGSQL] extension=php_pgsql.dll' into the php.ini conf file.

When I restart the server I get the same notification that others received in "Your web server does not appear to support any common database types." Now if I included the php_mysql.dll file as well, that problem goes away so I am assuming it has to do with the dll file offered for postgres. There is a report that I have to use the php_pgsql.dll verson 5.2.5 but am not sure if that is the case for the versions I am currently using.

Any information would be helpful, thank you.

 
 

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