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How do I get NetworkActiv Web Server, phpBB, and MySQL to work together?

April 26, 2017MySQL networkactiv phpbb web server

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How do I get NetworkActiv Web Server, phpBB, and MySQL to work together?

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NOTICE: This FAQ article was pieced together from various sources and is provided without warranty, may be incomplete, and your usage of it shall be at your own risk. First, be sure to have PHP installed (as specified in the previous FAQ article (above)). Second, be sure to have the PHP ini file (in PHP’s main installation or extracted to folder) be configured to support MySQL. This involves (A) un-commenting one or more of the lines for the MySQL DLL(s), namely “;extension=php_mysql.dll” (by removing the preceeding semicolon (;)). Be sure that you edit the correct PHP ini file as there are usually more than one (one is active and the other is named so that it’s not active, use common sense to determine which one (php.ini is the active one)); (B) You may need to copy one or more of php5ts.dll, php_mysql.dll, php_mysqli.dll, and libmysql.dll (and/or possibly others!) to the Web server’s installation folder; (C) You may need to somehow obtain and install libMySQL.dll to your system; (D)