I tried to load Drupal 7 on my Uniform Server 5.7.1 and get this message below. I apologize, but I have very little experience with the workings of a server. Should I go and download the PDO support files from MySQL? How hard is it to install? Will that mess up Uniform Server? I also found something on PHP.net that stated I just had to alter php.ini. I am not sure exactly which ones to enable. I have the Uniform Server running on a flash drive. My computer is running WindowsXP SP3 with 2Gb of ram, if that has anything to do with it. (and do I need to keep coming back here to keep seeing if anyone answers or is there an email notification? if needed knarfhill@embarqmail.com)

 

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Drupal message

Database support Disabled

Your web server does not appear to support any common PDO database extensions. Check with your hosting provider to see if they support PDO (PHP Data Objects) and offer any databases that Drupal supports Drupal supports.

Drupal state the following:

 

For Apache, you will need to make sure php_pdo.dll and php_pdo_mysql.dll exist in the php/ext directory, un-comment or add the appropriate lines in php.ini, and restart the web server.

 

Note: The php_pdo.dll is pre-compiled into PHP 5.3.5 hence will not appear in the extensions folder.

 

Extension php_pdo_mysql.dll exists in the extensions folder however it needs to be enabled in php.ini configuration file. To enable perform the following:

 

Edit file:

UniServer\usr\local\php\php.ini

Locate this line:

;extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll

Un-comment the line (remove ; ) as shown below:

extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll

 

Enable InnoDB

Otherwise you will receive this error:

Syntax error or access violation: 1286 Unknown storage engine 'InnoDB'

 

Edit file:

UniServer\usr\local\mysql\my.ini

Locate this line:

skip-innodb

Comment line (add #) as shown below:

#skip-innodb

 

Finally: During installation use a real e-mail address otherwise install will fail.

 

Tested on: Nano 5.7.1 Drupal 7.0

 

All the best

Ric

Perfect! Thanks so much for the information and instructions - very simple and thorough. 10,000 thank yous.

Just for the record the same process has worked for me using Uniserver 5.5.

 

Keep up the good work Ric, Uniserver really is becoming a very useful collection of tools.

Does this mean Drupal 7 *requires* InnoDB? I can see this being a problem for many people because most cheap hosts only support MyISAM.

"Note: Drupal supports MyISAM and InnoDB table types. NDB tables (MySQL Cluster) are not supported." From http://drupal.org/requirements. Drupal 5.x, 6.x, 7.x requirements page. And my uniformserver was not set up this way, thus the original question. I did as outlined above and D7 loaded just fine.

"Note: Drupal supports MyISAM and InnoDB table types. NDB tables (MySQL Cluster) are not supported." From http://drupal.org/requirements. Drupal 5.x, 6.x, 7.x requirements page. And my uniformserver was not set up this way, thus the original question. I did as outlined above and D7 loaded just fine.

 

Yup, I just installed Drupal 7 a minute ago and can confirm that nothing broke after ALTERing all the tables to ENGINE=MyISAM.

Thanks a lot for the help,

it works for me

how to check that pdo_mysql is activated ?? and how to test that my PHP is connected to pdo mysql ?

I just did this with Uniform Server 7.1.11 Orion and Drupal D7 following Ric's information at the top of this thread. All works just fine.

Hi Ric,

I was having the same problem and followed your instructions but unfortunately still get this error message:

Error

Database support Disabled

Your web server does not appear to support any common PDO database extensions. Check with your hosting provider to see if they support PDO (PHP Data Objects) and offer any databases that Drupal supports.

 

Any ideas what I can try next please?

 

I'm using version Orion 7.1.12 on windows 7

 

Cheers

Rob

 

 

Drupal state the following:

 

For Apache, you will need to make sure php_pdo.dll and php_pdo_mysql.dll exist in the php/ext directory, un-comment or add the appropriate lines in php.ini, and restart the web server.

 

Note: The php_pdo.dll is pre-compiled into PHP 5.3.5 hence will not appear in the extensions folder.

 

Extension php_pdo_mysql.dll exists in the extensions folder however it needs to be enabled in php.ini configuration file. To enable perform the following:

 

Edit file:

UniServer\usr\local\php\php.ini

Locate this line:

;extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll

Un-comment the line (remove ; ) as shown below:

extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll

 

Enable InnoDB

Otherwise you will receive this error:

Syntax error or access violation: 1286 Unknown storage engine 'InnoDB'

 

Edit file:

UniServer\usr\local\mysql\my.ini

Locate this line:

skip-innodb

Comment line (add #) as shown below:

#skip-innodb

 

Finally: During installation use a real e-mail address otherwise install will fail.

 

Tested on: Nano 5.7.1 Drupal 7.0

 

All the best

Ric

Hi Ric,

I was having the same problem and followed your instructions but unfortunately still get this error message:

Error

Database support Disabled

Your web server does not appear to support any common PDO database extensions. Check with your hosting provider to see if they support PDO (PHP Data Objects) and offer any databases that Drupal supports.

 

Any ideas what I can try next please?

 

I'm using version Orion 7.1.12 on windows 7

 

Cheers

Rob

Hi,

 

I had the very same issue with Orion 7.1.4 on Win 7. But I could manage to resolve the issue by manually restarting the Orion server. Maybe it is the trick for you as well!

 

 

Thanks,

Vaalf