Php - Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress

Question

How do I fix the error below?

Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.

I use my NAS with a telnet connection.

I installed FFP 0.7

My php.ini is in: ffp/etc/php.ini and I uncommented everything I thought to be of use.

Below is a portion of my php.ini file;

;If you wish to have an extension loaded automatically, use the following
; syntax:
;
;   extension=modulename.extension
;
; For example, on Windows:
;
extension=msql.dll
;
; ... or under UNIX:
;
extension=msql.so
;
; ... or with a path:
;
extension=/ffp/lib/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/mysql.so
;


extension=php_mysql.dll
extension=php_mysqli.dll
extension=php_pdo_mssql.dll
extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
extension=php_pdo_oci.dll
extension=php_pdo_odbc.dll
extension=php_pdo_pgsql.dll
extension=php_pdo_sqlite.dll
extension=php_pgsql.dll
extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_sqlite.so
extension=sqlite.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so

The outstanding issue is that when I run in phpinfo(), I see the module MySQLi activated but not MySQL.

MySQL is working as expected just as PHP and Lighttpd web server.

I equally have phpmyadmin working.

It's on a Zyxel NSA310.

Also, when mysqld is started, it creates a shortcut from my root to: ffp/opt/mysql.. and every time I restart my NAS the shortcut is deleted.

Does anyone might know a trick for this?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17694568/php-your-php-installation-appears-to-be-missing-the-mysql-extension-which-is-r

Answer 1

in the end i found a solution First, make sure MySQL server is running. Type the following command at a shell prompt:

/etc/init.d/mysql status

If MySQL is not running, enter:

/etc/init.d/mysql start

If MySQL is not installed, type the following command to install MySQL server:

apt-get install mysql-server

Make sure MySQL module for php5 is installed:

dpkg --list | grep php5-mysql

To install php5-mysql module enter:

apt-get install php5-mysql

Next, restart the Apache2 web server:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart