[ale] MySQL 4 & PHP on Redhat Enterprise Linux?

[George Carless]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 
01:23:40PM -0400, Keith Morris - IQ wrote:
> I don't know about RHEL, but I have installed MySQL4.0.x on RH9, FC1 and 
> FC2 with no problems working with php and apache. The key is to download 
> and install the compatibility dynamic client libraries which include the 
> 3.23.x libraries along with the other MySQL packages. Currently the 
> compat  package is named MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.20-0.i386.rpm.  Then 
> install php-mysql, php, httpd, etc and you shouldn't have any problems. 
> the compatibility package fulfills the MySQL 3.x dependancies for php-mysql.

Ah, the compat libraries were the missing link and were where I was getting stuck - thanks, everything's great now!

--George