Hey all you LAMP developers - We just started upgrading our RHEL4 servers to RHEL5. RHEL5 is bundled with PHP5, and we discovered that when we upgraded, some PHP pages we were running broke. The problem is with the MySQL functions; They no longer connect to our MySQL database server. After Googling this problem, I learned that PHP5 no longer enables MySQL access by default, and I also read that the functions have been renamed. The renamed functions doesn't appear to be a problem for us, as the error messages we've encountered do not indicate unknown functions (I assume the RedHat implementation of PHP5 includes backward compatibility). We get messages such as: Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'mysql.lib.msu.edu' (13) I was able to connect to our mysql server from the upgraded RHEL5 server with the mysql client, so the problem is definitely with PHP. All the "solutions" to this problem I found explain how to enable mysql library support by passing "--with-mysql" when you compile PHP5, but we didn't built PHP5; it comes bundled with RedHat. Any ideas? -- ^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V Eric Weston, M.F.A. Information Technology Professional Michigan State University Libaries, Systems Unit http://www.msu.edu/~westone Friday the 13th falls on a Friday this month.