Troubleshooting “mongo not found” and “php_mongo.dll is not a win32 application” errors

Question

I have been trying to install mongo for over 6 hours now and still have not gotten it to work. I am going to make this very detailed so that hopefully someone will help me get

Answer 1

PHP driver for Mongo DB is not currently working for 64bit wamp (you can keep your OS 64bit). Basically what you need to do:

1. install 32 bit WAMP

2. add PHP mongo driver "php_mongo-1.3.2RC1-5.4-vc9.dll", ts(thread safe) to php ext foldr download: https://s3.amazonaws.com/drivers.mongodb.org/php/index.html

3. rename "extension=php_mongo.dll" to "php_mongo.dll" and add extension=php_mongo.dll to php.ini in your server

Answer 2

Solved:

My operating system is 32 bit Windows 7 I did the following to add the mongoDb extension into my php: 1. Used: https://s3.amazonaws.com/drivers.mongodb.org/php/index.html
2. Downloaded: php_mongo-1.5.1.zip and unzip the file which contains the binaries for different PHP versions.
3. Copy php_mongo-1.5.1-5.4-vc9.dll to C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\ext as php_mongo.dll
4. Added the following line in php.ini
extension=php_mongo.dll
5. Restart my wamp server
Used localhost/?phpinfo=1 to see the installed extension. It works fine.

First I tried php_mongo-1.5.5.zip to do the same but it was not working then successfully configured with php_mongo-1.5.1.zip.

Cheers...

Answer 3

Ok so after hours and hours of searching for an answer to my original question which was:

I am running a 64 bit machine with a 64 bit wamp stack but mongodb will not work in wamp 64 bit, how do i get all this working?

I finally just uninstalled wamp 64 bit and downloaded wamp 32 bit onto my windows 64 bit machine. I then downloaded the mongo 64 bit version and everything is working fine.