ok dudes,
first of all sorry for my no-fluent rusty english
but it seems I'm italian ;) anyhow...
some people ask my through email (it's a bad way to get in touch with forums my friend...share your knowledge posting help INSTEAD!) something about the problem mentioned in the subject.
remember this post would like to be a solution to the problem and NOT A STEP TO STEP explanation to solve it!
ok, the problem (and i suppose it is one of many others)I solved during XOOPS installation is related to the blank page after db confirmation. This problem was originally posted by VI_Knight (2003/10/4 19:54:02) and the blank page appears because the php code of XOOPS cannot finds support during it's connection to your MySQL db :-\ arghhhh
CHECK IF YOU HAVE A MySQL EXTENSION INSTALLED BEFORE!
PLEASE USE in a .php file and run it.
This problem (on my linux box) was caused by a missing MySQL extension under php. If you're using a mandrake distribution like me all you have to do is install the MySQL support for php (i suppose every RPM-working distribution will do it!) :) eheh
But, if you downloaded the php source the only way to solve the problem is to recompile php with MySQL extension support Es.
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
--enable-xslt --with-xslt-sablot=/usr/local/sablot --with-dom=/usr/local/libxml \
--with-zlib --with-iconv --with-expat-dir=/usr/local/expat
in this example i'm installing php as a dynamic module for apache with MySQL support and some xml stuff ;)
THAT's all !X!
![](https://xoops.org/uploads/smil42e7a3d4c7b9f.gif)
remeber you can check the documentation related to compiling the source code (
http://www.php.net)
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