I would like to know the answer too. Anyone here know what is the answer to your question. I'll do some Googling and get back to you if I got an decent answer. You should email the people at iPage as they probably could assist you..
When you restart apache do you get any error messages?.
There is a file called libmysql.dll or something like that which you need to copy to your windows\system32 dir..
If you delete the php.ini from windows php will still run using default settings...
With the newer fixes of apache, if you read thru the httpd.conf file, it states that you no longer need to do anything with the mysql dll's to get it to work..
With iis, you need to set the path to the extensions directory in your ini file, uncoment any of the extensions you want to run and then you are better off to do a total reboot, not just a restart...
Thanks all: I figured it out, here's my answer:.
Code at the end of httpd.conf:.
LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2.dll".
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php.
PHPIniDir "C:/windows".
The bugger that was causing the problem with extensions was I had PHPIniDir "C:/php" (recommended) i.e. I was pointing at the wrong place, php.ini is in c:\windows.
But now I have another problem, which I will post separately...
Php5 has problems with oscommerce, you would be better off going to 4.3.9..
Windows XP, Apache, PHP.
Installed apache, then PHP. PHP works, but I can't get the extensions to work, i.e. php_mysql.dll. Changed extensions_dir in PHP.ini every which way, with quotes, without quotes, forward slashes, back slashes, nothing works. I also uncommented the dll's. Any ideas? Do I have re-compile PHP or something? It was all working fine on IIS.
Also, if I delete php.ini, and restart Apache, PHP still works! It's like my changes to PHP.ini are having no effect. PHP.ini is under c:\Windows right?.
Thanks in advance...
Check to see if there are any more php.ini files on your computer. You are right in saying that it is normally c:\windows, but I have known there to be multiple copies on a computer. If you system is set up correctly you should not have to enable any of the drivers for php..
Vger..