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Updating to PHP 7.1

Posted on October 8, 2018

Hi there, I am getting this strange error when I try to update to PHp 7.1. I was wondering if maybe there was a setting that I am missing that I need to do?

Here is the message I get when I update to PHP 7.1, and then go to my website “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.”



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