Missing PHP_MBSTRING.DLL

**Proware** · 2006-09-09, 04:24 AM

I have uncommented php_mbstring in the php.,ini per the instructions for 4.5 but Apache won't start.

Upon closer inspection, I do not have php_mbstring.dll on my system.

Where do I get it from? I am running PHP 5.0.4

Should I upgrade it to a newer version?

**Scott_Savage** · 2006-09-09, 04:52 AM

Yes download the full latest PHP package and unzip it. It has the dll in the ext directory along with all your other extensions.

**translux** · 2006-09-09, 03:53 PM

Scott
Can I just unzip the new version of PHP and overwrite the old?
I'm on a WAMP -Windows 2k, Apache,MySQL,PHP-box.

**Scott_Savage** · 2006-09-09, 11:17 PM

Yes you can as long as you are not changing major revision numbers (ie. going from PHP 4 to 5). If you are then you will also have to change your apache/iis config so that it points to the new isapi dll.

**jeffjw** · 2006-09-10, 04:54 PM

I had a similar problem with my version of PHP 5 on an Apache Server. I just ran the latest YUM update to get the mbstring PHP module. I didn't need to recompile PHP, since the module is used when you restart PHP.

yum install php-mbstring

That command, if you're using YUM to update your server, will download the latest mbstring module for PHP. It will create a ini setting for the module. Then just restart the httpd service.

service httpd restart

How that helps.
Jeff