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Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress. On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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

I tried to fix this problem by making sure MySQL server is running.

/etc/init.d/mysql status

I found it is running properly.

Then I cheked for MySQL Module for php5 is installed

dpkg --list | grep php5-mysql

and finally, I restarted the NGINX:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Still facing the same issue again and again:

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

Solution

  • Thanks for contributing to the answer.

    Nothing worked to solve this issue. Although I faced the same issue. @igor yavych answer was quite useful.

    Finally R&D worked and here's the final solution:

    In order to deploy PHP applications, you will need to implement the following “PHP-FastCGI” solution to allow nginx to properly handle and serve pages that contain PHP code.

    sudo apt-get install php5-cli php5-cgi php5-fpm

    Now, install NGINX:

    sudo apt-get install nginx

    Now configure NGINX then restart NGINX and PHP5-fpm:

    service php5-fpm restart
/etc/init.d/nginx restart

    Issue the following command to install the MySQL server packages and required PHP support for MySQL (You do not have to purge MySQL Server):

    sudo apt-get install mysql-server php5-mysql

    Finally restart php5-fpm:

    service php5-fpm restart

    Congratulations! Now it's working!

    You can also check my step-by-step guide.