Hi there,

I have a pretty anoying problem on my hands and i can't seem to get to the bottom of it.
I've instaled the standard packages for a web server on my debian machine.

apt-get install apache2 apache2-common + their includes
apt-get install pear-php4 php4-common
apt-get mysql-server mysql-client
apt-get install php4-mysql
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php4


So after a brief configuration, i ended up having my apache2 server runing with php4 support

and the mysql server set up and working, even usable from phpmyadmin.

Now the only problem that i have is that the phpinfo() displays '--without-mm' '--without-mysql' '--without-sybase-ct' and i can not install the phpbb2 forum >.<

It seems i can't make php work with mysql ? it's strange because php -m displays




[PHP Modules]
bcmath
bz2
calendar
ctype
dba
dbx
exif
filepro
ftp
gettext
iconv
mbstring
mime_magic
mysql
ncurses
openssl
overload
pcntl
pcre
posix
session
shmop
sockets
standard
sysvmsg
sysvsem
sysvshm
tokenizer
wddx
xml
xmlrpc
yp
zip
zlib

[Zend Modules]


i tried everything i could ... but i can't seem to pin point the problem.
I would apreciate any help!

I have firehol installed on this machine but i don't see how could this cause my curent problem...

It doesn't. The problem is that the Debian package comes pre-compiled without support for MySQL, for compatibility with older hardware, not capable of running a fullblown (and tghus resource-hungry) MySQL database.

The only real solution is building from scratch (the sources )

Thank you fren, you've saved me from wasting more of my time on figureing out the problem ! ^-^ that seems like a very reasonable explantion. I'll try your solution