Derek Kehler » php5 http://www.derekkehler.com Geek / Folk Musician / Decent Person Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:14:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Linux vs. Windows hosting http://www.derekkehler.com/2008/04/04/linux-vs-windows-hosting/ http://www.derekkehler.com/2008/04/04/linux-vs-windows-hosting/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:42:47 +0000 derek kehler http://www.derekkehler.com/?p=36 The other day I was attempting to install wordpress using GoDaddy hosting for a friend. I usually use Dreamhost (not that they’re any better), but she already had hosting set up hosting with GoDaddy. Anyway, I followed all instructions as per usual for installing wordpress, but came up with this error message:

“Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.”

Many google searches later, I kind of guessed that it might be because I was using windows hosting. I switched it over to linux hosting, and nothing happened, so I gave up.

I came back a full 24 hours later, and voila! magic! it just worked!

So what I figure, is that Windows hosting and PHP5 are incompatible for some reason. By simply switching to Linux, everything JUST WORKS.

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