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Unable to get PHP on Windows 2003 IIS6 to connect to MySQL for Drupal

Asked by SerenitySystems in Server Software, PHP and Databases, MySQL Server

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I am trying to put together a single Windows 2003 machine running IIS6, PHP, and MySQL in order to run Drupal.  When I open the Drupal configuration page, it can't connect to the database. I get this error msg:

"Your web server does not appear to support any common database types. Check with your hosting provider to see if they offer any databases that Drupal supports."

The error page gives me this link: http://drupal.org/node/270#database

I have tried the suggestions there. I have reinstalled mysql and php.  I have been using MySQL Control Center 0.9.8, which is a Win32 GUI app, to manage mysql and it appears the databse is runnning fine.  I can make/edit databases and user accounts. I can manage permissions.

I have a good understanding of how php integrates into IIS, but I have less understanding how mysql is tied in.  I have run some of the scripts from http://www.php.net/mysql_connect    but I always get this error:

"Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\drupal-5.5\php1.php on line 2"

I can telnet to localhost 3306 and get a connection, so I know the SQL server is listening on that port.

I have played around with my.ini and php.ini but that didn't help. I haven't been able to find much in the way of noobie explanatins of what these settings mean.

I'm using these versions:

php-5.2.5-win32-installer.msi
mysql-5.0.45-win32.zip
drupal-5.5.tar.gz
Windows 2003 Server SP2

PHP appears to be working ine. I'm out of ideas. Here's the output from phpinfo:

System  Windows NT WEB1 5.2 build 3790  
Build Date  Nov 8 2007 23:18:08  
Configure Command  cscript /nologo configure.js "--enable-snapshot-build" "--with-gd=shared"  
Server API  ISAPI  
Virtual Directory Support  enabled  
Configuration File (php.ini) Path  C:\WINDOWS  
Loaded Configuration File  (none)  
PHP API  20041225  
PHP Extension  20060613  
Zend Extension  220060519  
Debug Build  no  
Thread Safety  enabled  
Zend Memory Manager  enabled  
IPv6 Support  enabled  
Registered PHP Streams  php, file, data, http, ftp, compress.zlib  
Registered Stream Socket Transports  tcp, udp  
Registered Stream Filters  convert.iconv.*, string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, zlib.*  
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