Installing PHP4 and MySQL

[thechronic]

Hello,
I am a complete newb with linux, I have only installed it once before on my old computer and played around with some games and basic programs. I am a web designer though and am setting up someones website who has their own server running Debian. I couldn't get phpBB3 to install and I realized that I needed a newer version of PHP so I just tried to install phpBB2 instead.

When this didn't work I found this thread:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ins...pport-dat.html

From this I found that my phpinfo said I have '--without-mysql' so I am thinking I need to follow this:

PHP: MySQL - Manual

to put on PHP with MySQL enabled.

I have no idea how to go about doing this, could someone please tell me how to upgrade or install this PHP with MySQL enabled?

Also, right now I was just going to connect to a remote MySQL server since our linux machine doesn't have MySQL on it, but how hard is it for me to install MySQL on the machine too?

Thanks a lot,
John

[Chris H]

Why not use the standalone app from apachefriends called xampp?

Download, untar, run, do your stuff, shut down!

No need to worry about processes running except when you need them.

Unless it's the install process of LAMP on a linux box you want to learn.

[jledhead]

your using debian so apt-get install php5 and apt-get phpbb2 and apt-get phpbb2-mysql (i think thats the name)

phpbb3 you will need to download and install.