You may run into issues installing the mysql gem on a Linux server running a 64-bit version of MySQL server. When attempting to install the gem its likely you will get errors if you don’t specify a couple options when running the command. The issue I continued to have was the options are clearly listed…
I received the below error when attempting to compile PHP to use with Litespeed as an LSAPI module. The error was related to multiple versions of numerous MySQL RPM packages being installed. PHP Compile Error: checking for MySQL support… yes checking for specified location of the MySQL UNIX socket… no checking for MySQL UNIX socket…
When installing the mysql ruby gem you may run across the above error in the log file. If so you need to add some configuration switches to the gem install command as shown below. Install Command for CentOS 64 Bit Server: bash [root@server ~]# env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install mysql — –with-mysql-config=/usr/lib64/mysql/mysql_config -with-mysql-dir=/var/lib/mysql