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

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Recently I decided to try out wordpress. I am running Ubuntu 9.04.

I installed apache 2, MySQL, and PHP 5. When I tried to run the installation: http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

It gave me this error message:

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

I have tested and verified that my apache server and mysql database server is running.

Is there any steps that I missed ?

Cheers,

Tomas Markauskas · Answer 1 · 2009-10-21 19:04:02Z

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Just run this:

sudo apt-get install php5-mysql

And then restart apache.

answered Oct 21 '09 at 17:42

	Might want to change that to `sudo apt-get install php5-mysql`. – Macha Oct 21 '09 at 18:44
	Oh yeah thanks! :) – Tomas Markauskas Oct 21 '09 at 19:04

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zfranciscus · Answer 2 · 2009-10-22 12:33:31Z

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Thanks Tomas.

I summarize the steps that I took to install wordpress in my ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. I hope everyone can benefit from this:Installing WordPress

answered Oct 22 '09 at 12:33

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