phpMyFAQ

I've been round and round this one but cannot seem to find out where it's going wrong.

I'm installing phpMyFAQ onto an existing Fedora (FC7) box that is already running a number of applications for us.

phymyfaq 2.5.5
2.6.23.17-88.fc7
php 5.2.11 --- (but I'll come to that)
mysql 5.1.33
apache 2.2.20

Install seemed simple enough on a test box I set up but when I came to install on a live customer facing box I get the following
when trying to run installer .php

' Some missing extensions were detected! Please enable the corresponding PHP extension(s):'
* ext/xmlwriter

So that seemed simple enough although here is the issue.

From the command line
php --ri xmlwriter
xmlwriter
XMLWriter => enabled

Which tells me xmlwriter is installed and enabled (as does php --re xmlwriter) and it did when I went through the pre-requiste checks

I've been round and around this . phpinfo tells me xmlwriter was compiled in with my distro version of php (5.2.6)

I even downloaded php source and rebuilt it myself which is how I arrive at 5.2.11 and I get exactly the same effect.

I commented out the requirement for xmlwriter in installer.php and it ran straight through without any issue but of course I need
the xmlwriter in order to make full use of phpmyfaq

On the version of phpmyfaq I built without xmlwriter the admin/index.php still reports php at version 5.2.6 ?

There are no other versions of php on this box, I've rebooted/restarted apache etc etc several times.

I even added teh extension to the php.ini file which had no effect

Suggestions please on how I can get round this - either my php install is compleley screwed or there is some cached info somewhere that I cannot get rid of to rebase thi install ?

Hi,

I think you have different PHP versions for Apache and your command line.

bye
Thorsten

Thanks for the pointer, I was going down the same lines but looking for a shortcut without destabizing
the other apps running on this server.

I resorted to downloading the apache sources and rebuilding it.

Hey presto - everything is fine.

Either I managed to get it all very confused or the apache distro I was using was built static, and not including xmlwriter.
Even when php itself could find this the static linked apache could not.

Hi,

is it working now?

bye
Thorsten