Tag: WordPress

Error#1: Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress. Fix: Enable MySQL Extension for Php via php.ini as shown below: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Dynamic Extensions ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; If you wish to have an extension loaded automatically, use the following; syntax:;;   extension=modulename.extension;; For example, on Windows:;;   extension=msql.dll;; … or under UNIX:;;   extension=msql.so;; … or with a path:;;   extension=/path/to/extension/msql.so;; If you only provide the name of the extension, PHP will look for it in its; default extension directory.;; Windows Extensions; Note that ODBC support is built in, so no dll is needed for it.; Note that many […]

When you download and install a WAMP server on Windows you get all of its components Apache Tomcat Server which acts as Web Server service MySQL which acts as backend database Php which acts as the development programming language   It’s a single installer that takes care of all of these components installation. Configuring WAMP is very straight forward as detailed in Instaling WordPress on WAMP. However, the downside with WAMP is, you get a pre-defined version of the components bundled together.  What if there is a newer version of Php which you’d like to have setup? Or if you’d […]