Tinkerwell is not working on Windows with LocalWP.
I get the following error: your php installation appears to be missing the mysql extension which is required by wordpress
This is not the case for Tinkerwell and LocalWP on Mac. I contacted Tinkerwell, they acknowledged the error but can do anything about it because they don’t know how LocalWP works on Windows.
Pls can you solve this? Anyone has a solution for this? The php.ini is loading everything perfectly.
Thanks!
Could there be any security, antivirus or firewall features on Windows blocking connections or adjusting permissions?
Hello @vivice.design I made it work on MacOS and I guess it should be something similar:
Just go to your database settings.
Once there copy the socket and use it as follows:
/** Database hostname */
if ( isset( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] )
&& false !== stripos( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 'tinkerwell' ) ) {
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost:/Users/lajennylove/Library/Application Support/Local/run/322bXKesj/mysql/mysqld.sock');
}
else {
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
}
I hope this helps.
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Thank you for sharing @lajennylove!
I always made it work on Mac, the issue was Windows. That’s not my problem anymore since the company I work for now gave me a Mac as solicited. I wrote to Tinkerwell about this issue and they told me:
Hey Viviana,
I had a look into LocalWP today and actually don’t understand how it works on Windows the technical side, so I wasn’t able to solve this issue.
I am afraid Tinkerwell doesn’t work with LocalWP on Windows at the moment.
Cheers,
Sebastian
So… I guess it just doesn’t work.
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I still have issues running on Windows. how to know database port on Windows?
Hey @bams! On Windows if you click on the Database tab in your Local app you can see the Port designation there.
I checked with a Web Dev who had some familiarity with Tinkerwell (albeit with MacOS) and they mentioned the following that might help for Windows users:
They might need to set their PHP binary path in Tinkerwell to be the Local PHP path. It sounds like Tinkerwell is pointing to a PHP binary that doesn’t have the MySQL extension.
They may then also fall into the issue of needing to specify the socket in their database connection.