adding PHP 5.0.4 to Apache 2.0.54

I am running windows XP Home SP2
I downloaded, installed, and have running Apache 2.0.54
I downloaded PHP 5.0.4
I wrote the following dummy.php:
Hello World<br>
<?php echo "Hello World"; ?>

With my browser: localhost/dummy.php
I get the text just as I typed, which I expect, but the server is
working.

I want to add in php. First I choose the LoadModule approach (which is
recommended) so I add these lines to my httpd.conf file:

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php5/php5apache2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
PHPIniDir "c:/php5"

restart apache and try it again... localhost/dummy.php

Hello World
Hello World

Scripting appears to work. Next I want to add the mysql extension so
in php.ini I set:

extension_dir = "c:\php5\ext\"

and uncomment

extension=php_mysql.dll

Restart Apache server and I get the error message:

PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:/php5/ext/php_mysql.dll'
- The specified module could not be found

The dlls are there, I tried every combination of /\. This should be
straight forward. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

hi,

 > PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:/php5/ext/php_mysql.dll'
 > - The specified module could not be found
 >
 > The dlls are there, I tried every combination of /\. This should be
 > straight forward. What am I doing wrong?

hmm, same with me, i got it solved by copying the libmysql.dll to
c:\windows\system32. just appending c:\php\ext to the PATH variable didn't
work. now it runs fine if you still have any problems, try to copy all
dll files you need in ext to c:\windows\system32.

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