[Asterisk-Users] MYSQL Dialplan Question

[Steven Critchfield]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 10:04 -0600, Shaun Tierney wrote:
> I am new to Asterisk, and I am having trouble connecting to the MySQL
> database located on the same machine as my Asterisk box.  When the dialplan
> tried to connect to MySQL database, I get the following error message on the
> Asterisk console.
> 
> Nov 15 09:29:41 WARNING[111139760]: pbx.c:1279 pbx_extension_helper: No
> application 'MYSQL' for extension (default, s, 5)
> 
> Here is the corresponding line in my dialplan.
> 
> exten => s,5,MYSQL(Connect connid localhost admin abc123 asteriskdb)
> 
> I am able to connect to the database with the same username and password
> using the MySQL console.  Am I missing something in my installation or
> configuration that would cause this?

Yes you are missing something in your installation. From reading the
error message I can see you did not build the mysql application. My
guess would be that it is not enabled in the makefile. Go edit it,
compile, install, and try again.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>