It is not necessary for MySQL Server to run on the same server as your web server, if the client is compiled you can connect to any MySQL server even if it is not on the local machine.
Many hosts run seperate database servers on their LAN that you can connect to from your host, or they may have just not installed it. You can always send an email to them on behalf of your client and find out which is the case. You do not need a database to have dynamic pages, depending on what you want your dynamic pages to do you may need a database. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Todd Cary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 10:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Russ Subject: [PHP] Yahoo/Cobalt servers/PHP One of my clients signed up for service at Yahoo for space on a Cobalt server. The specs say that it has Php and Interbase. I go to the server and do a phpinfo() and find out that Interbase is not compiled into PHP but MySQL is. Then I find out that MySQL is *not* installed on the server. Am I missing something here? If one wants to have dynamic pages and uses PHP, then *some* DB has to be available, correct? Todd -- Todd Cary Ariste Software 2200 D Street Extension Petaluma, CA 94952 707-773-4523 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
