it's been 2 days I can't figure out why I can't connect to MySQL from my Apache Website. I have a Windows 2008 R2 Server that hosts the company website on IIS7, with Joomla 1.5.3 and PHP 5.3 (installed in c:\program files (x86)\php\v5.3).
It's (still) running smoothly and with no issues.
We need to migrate it to Apache 2.4 (x64, installed on c:\Apache24), obvoiusly keeeping Joomla where it is :-)
Installed PHP5.6.13 x64 (in c:\PHP_5.6.13)
I managed to bring up & running both Apache and PHP, but now when I try to connect to the Apache site (localhost:8081/site) I get the following error
Database connection error (1): The MySQL adapter 'mysql' is not available.
I'm stuck on it. I've enabled both mysql and msqli extensions in php.ini I've set the mysql default host in php.ini Changing the $dbtype in Joomla configuration to 'mysql' or 'mysqli' has only the effect to change the name of the adapter that is not found in the error message :-)
Any idea?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: running phpinfo() showed me that they are expecting php.ini in c:\windows. Since I don't want to move that file, I created the PHPRC environment variable pointing to c:\PHP5.6.13, but I read that is needed to restart the server in order to achieve changes.
Since this is a production server, I will restart this evening :-)
I'll post the results....
EDIT (AND CONCLUSION): The problem was, apart of copying php.ini in c:\windows (the environment variable didn't do the trick), that I set the wrong path for php Extensions and Apache was searching for c:\Apache24\ext instead of c:\PHP5.6.13\ext... it was so clearly reported in Event Viewer....
Just for the sake of completness, in the end I abandoned (for now) the migration because I found this connector from IIS to Tomcat that let me set up the redirection in 5 minutes. (with Apache I had issues with something that was messing up with paths, so one virtual site was referenced as server root and the other one did not respond)... I was thinking about something misconfigured in joomla but have no time to serach and fix it)
