Is are there another database server software for PHP other than MySQL?
Does it run on Linux?
Does it work with Apache?
(No MySQL, can't get it working on ubuntu.)
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Yes. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of database servers available to you.
To be frank, if you haven't been successful in getting MySQL working on Ubuntu, you're either:
- Reading really bad documentation
- Reading good documentation but not understanding/executing properly
- Giving up too soon
MySQL should be trivial to get running on Ubuntu. Quite honestly, ~30 seconds to install (and that's if you have a very slow internet connection), and perhaps 30 minutes to go through the steps of creating your first database and creating a user that has privileges on that db.
Other popular database server options are:
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- MongoDB
- Cassandra
- CouchDB
- SQLite
None of these (perhaps with the exception of SQLite, which isn't widely-supported) will be any easier to get running than MySQL.
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I get errors, and I don't know where to start on fixing it. If you could help, that would be nice :) – user1345415 Apr 20 '12 at 03:44
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3Perhaps it would be a good idea to completely re-work your question and include those errors then. – EEAA Apr 20 '12 at 03:46
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How did you go about installing mysql initially? if needed, remove it and reinstall it through aptitude. – hookenz Apr 20 '12 at 03:54
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Given how hard it is to *not* get MySQL server working I'm betting on option 2. – John Gardeniers Apr 20 '12 at 04:12