Re: [cobalt-users] mySQL and PHP

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 4/4/00 2:37 PM, Luka Muzinic at luka.muzinic@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Although Cobalt says UNSUPORTED...does anyone use that combination (mySQL
> and PHP) and how does it work? Problems with warranty?

I did an informal survey of the list a while back and found that about 25%
of the people on the list probably use PHP with MySQL

I use it on a Qube, Raq2, RH boxes, YDL boxes, Mandrake boxes--they all work
great.

Coupla issues for you: the version that is really easy to get working (the
experimental RPMs on the cobalt site) was a really old version last time I
checked.  There is a known security issue with all but the latest versions
of MySQL that is pretty serious.

So you may want to compile yourself the lastest version of MySQL, Apache and
PHP from sources.  That gets you in a little deeper water, but shouldn't
cause any major problems.  Getting those three working together from source
is about a 5 on a 1-10 difficulty scale.

-k