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[perkiset]

This is here more for Perk's memory than anything else...

When compiling PHP on a machine and attempting to enable mysql and mysqli, note that it works WAY better if you point right at the file you need.

EG:

./configure \
        --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
        --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
        --with-pear \
        --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config \
        --with-curl \
        --disable-cgi \
        --enable-ftp \
        --enable-soap \
        --enable-mbstring \
        --enable-sockets \
        --with-gd -with-png-dir=/usr \
        --with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
        --with-freetype-dir=/usr

as opposed to just

        --with-mysql \
        --with-mysqli \

Just sayin'.

[herbacious]

nice

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=PHP+compilation+tip%3A+Can%27t+Find+mysql_config&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[perkiset]

Lordy, its almost as if I know what I'm doing from an SEO perspective

One thing I didn't explain up top is that I always build a configuration.ep file and make it executable - that's what I call rather than the normal configure file. Then whenever I get to a machine I've not touched in a while I can look for MY configuration and know how I built (that app). Some are simple (mysql) some are bigger like this php config.