mysql broken, please help!

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Hello,

I spent last 6+ hours researching and now posting for some help as nothing in online discussions have helped…

This is a new dedicated server.
I see that mysql is running on the server
[root@host2 /]# service mysql start
Starting MySQL (Percona Server)… [ OK ]
[root@host2 /]# service mysql status
MySQL (Percona Server) running (18295) [ OK ]
[root@host2 /]#
However, no php applications can connect to it.
I am getting errors like:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in
Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.
it was working before until i updated apache config with php5.4.
PLEASE HELP.

thanks

2

nevermind, i just reloaded the server.

If you have any idea what happened, please do reply!

3

If you upgraded Apache and might have upgraded PHP5 at the same time I guess you had to restart Apache to be able to complete the Apache upgrade process. Relevant error logs from the affected server might also give us some more hints.

4

Don’t use the deprecated mysql_* API; switch to the mysqli_* API in PHP.