From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5 Description of problem: php-mysql object libraries are not installed by default when performing a standard server or custom installation of Fedora (any version I believe). As a result, someone attempting to create a standard LAMP server will see an error when using PHP scripts with functions such as "mysql_connect". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Begin Fedora installation 2.Select Server type 3.Specify specific packages and choose MySQL database 4.Install Actual Results: I have a LAMP server where P does not speak to M. I have to be wise enough to interpret the error message coming back from PHP, and then manually install the RPM with the correct RPM Expected Results: Whenever MySQL and Apache and PHP are all selected, the php-mysql library should be on by default. And probably php-postgres, php-odbc, probably all because they are small in size and offer virtually no performance hit to either server. Additional info: This detracts from the "plug and play" nature of Fedora. Everything generally works great out of the box, its frustrating that creating a generic LAMP server should not work when immediatly when things like SELinux work great with no modifications.
*** Bug 164503 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A walkthrough on how to fix the problem if you happen to install without the right libraries. Note this only applies to Fedora Core 4, although it would probably work with FC3 as well with different file names (as FC3 uses mysql 3.21 and php 4.3). 1. Check to make sure its not already installed (must be root) su rpm -qa | grep php-mysql 2. Pop FC4 disk 1 in and mount your cdrom (if necessary) mount -tauto /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom 3. Install the file rpm -Uvh /media/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/php-mysql-5.0.4-10.i386.rpm 4. Start/restart apache and mysql /sbin/service httpd restart /sbin/service mysqld restart
Currently there is no way to do conditional requires, such that if group A is selected, and group B is selected, make sure package C is also selected. Each group is considered stand alone, and people that want a Webserver may not want mysql, and people that want mysql may not want php. Likewise we can't rely on package deps for this as people that want php may not want mysql along with it. So unfortunately there is no good way of resolving this issue as things currently stand.