Possible Incomplete Installation of XAMPP 1.5.5

[Philip G. Duffy]

I have installed XAMPP under Windows XP/SP2. There is a desktop icon for XAMPP Control Panel which leads to a page that indicates that both Apache and MySQL are running as services. Status is OK.

When I attempt to display localhost/xampp in a browser, I get the following display:

MySQL - Deactivated
PHP - Activated
HTTPS - Activated
CGI - Deactivated
SSI - Activated
SMTP - Deactivated
FTP Deactivated

When I click on PHPMyAdmin I get the "Cannot load mysql extension. Please check PHP configuration"

There is nothing in phpinfo() for 'mysql'.

When I attempted to load Seagull as my MVC framework, it couldn't get by the MySQL credentials part of the installation, suggesting that it couldn't find MySQL. I am also having some problems with my Zend installation, but these could be independent.

I don't recall getting error messages during the XAMPP install.

What do I need to do to get MySQL and PHPMyAdmin installed correctly?

[Wiedmann]

have installed XAMPP under Windows XP/SP2.

How have you installed XAMPP (exact steps)?

[Philip G. Duffy]

It has been some time since I installed XAMPP for Windows XP, but I do recall that I attempted to do a standard install. I could not detail the exact installation steps at this point.

I installed XAMPP 1.5.4a previously on a Linux machine, and I have been able to access PHPMyAdmin on that machine. phpinfo() has MySQL and MySQLi settings. Curiously Status indicates that MySQL (and everything else) is disabled, which is confusing.

[Hollywood]

I'm having the exact same problem. Everything was working until I installed Zend. That's when the problems started.

I'm doing some checks to see if I can isolate the problem but no luck as of yet. I've changed the php.ini file with the one in the XAMPP Apache file folder and made sure that the php_mysql.dll extension was uncommented. I also checked the extension path by using both the Zend path and the XAMPP path (not at the same time of course) but nothing.

I think it's time to go back to Dreamweaver where things worked

[Wiedmann]

Everything was working until I installed Zend.

1st: You mean "Zend Optimizer" with "Zend"?

2nd: You have installed a new "Zend Optimier" from zend.com, or just enabled the "Zend Optimizer" provided by XAMPP?

[Hollywood]

Actually, it's Zend Platform that's the problem. I uninstalled all the Zend products that I had on my system and got back to just XAMPP. At that point, everything worked fine.

The first Zend product that I re-installed was Platform 2.2.3 and the problems came back. I un-installed it again and everything went back to normal.

<edit> I forgot to mention that I followed Marcel's PDF on installing Zend Platform on XAMPP. It doesn't work quite as described, but close enough. I also un-commented the Zend Optimizer line in the PHP.ini file </edit>

I then installed Zend Studio(5.5.0), Optimizer(3.2.0) and Guard(4.0.1) and tested after each install. Everything worked fine.

I placed a ticket to Zend regarding this and the response was that Platform doesn't work with XAMPP 1.5.5 because of PHP 5.2 and that I should downgrade my XAMPP.

I have a better solution. I won't worry about installing Platform until it catches up. I was just testing Platform to see how it worked and if there was any advantage to using it.

I have sites written with PHP 5.2 that I need to be able to maintain and I really don't feel like re-writing them in 5.1 or 4.x just so I can test a piece of software. Unfortunately, I don't have a testing computer to play with this so I was working with a production machine. Maybe this will give me an excuse to buy a test system.