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Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress
- Posted on July 5, 2015
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Asked by eraldgermani
Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress. I just restarted the server and this poped up?? Anyone help how to fix it?
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This error is generated in wp-includes/load.php. Go to your Wordpress directory and go look at that file and search for the line that has the error message.
Look at the “if” statement above it to see what MySQL extensions your version of Wordpress is trying to use. If it’s checking for “mysqli” and other MySQL extensions, that’s a good thing, and you just have to make sure one of those supported extensions is installed.
If it’s only checking for the “mysql” extension, the problem is that extension has been deprecated and is no longer installed with new versions of PHP. You have to either upgrade your Wordpress installation, or see if it is possible to install the “mysql” extension with your version of PHP.
The first thing you should do is verify if PHP5’s MySQL extension is installed.
Make sure MySQL module for php5 is installed: dpkg --list | grep php5-mysql
To install php5-mysql module enter: sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
Next, restart the Apache2 web server: sudo service apache2 restart
To verify if this worked correctly, create a new PHP file some where on your web server and place this inside of it:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Do a CTRL+F search for “mysql”
Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress. Anyone help me how to fix this problem?