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IgorAlves
Asked: 2017-09-22 08:45:23 +0800 CST

How to enable php5-mysql in ubuntu 16.04 trough cli?

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I want to enable the module php5-mysql in my Ubuntu 16.04 trough the cli.

When I do apt search php, I see php5-mysql is there. Then run apt-get install php5-mysql and that is what I get :

root@25814ad2fc62:/var/www/html# apt-get install php5-mysql
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
php5-mysql is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.

So the conclusion is that this module is installed but not enabled. Following that post, I see run the command php5enmod mysql and have no messages or errors.

After run php -m I see that mysql is not there:

root@25814ad2fc62:/etc/php5/mods-available# php -m
[PHP Modules]
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
ereg
fileinfo
filter
ftp
hash
iconv
json
libxml
mbstring
mysqlnd
openssl
pcre
PDO
pdo_sqlite
Phar
posix
readline
redis
Reflection
session
SimpleXML
SPL
sqlite3
standard
tokenizer
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter
zlib

[Zend Modules]

And these are available modules in my machine:

root@25814ad2fc62:/etc/php5/mods-available# ls
mysql.ini  mysqli.ini  opcache.ini  pdo.ini  pdo_mysql.ini  redis.ini

So, how can I enable this mysql module in this instance of my php? I am running inside a docker container.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Edit the file:

    sudo nano /etc/php5/mods-available/mysql.ini

    And make sure it contains an uncommented line like this:

    ; configuration for php mysql module
; priority=20
extension=mysql.so

    Lines starting with ; are comments and are ignored.

    Restart apache or nginx or php-fpm after this change.

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