Tryst with WordPress
It took me a long time to install my local copy of wordpress.
Problem: For some reason the PHP install failed to recognise the existence of mysql on my machine and gave the following error “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL”.
Environment: Apache 2.2 on Windows XP, PHP 5, MySQL 5
Solution: Make sure the extension=php_mysql.dll is commented out in php.ini and that the extension dir variable in php.ini is amended from “./” to “C:/PHP/ext”. Also please ensure the php_mysql.dll is copied to system32 folder in windows and its location is explicitly added to the PATH environment variable. Then it should work straight away. I had few other trivial errors but I will let your ambitious self sort them out.