wamp cannot load mysqli extension

Question

WAMP installed fine, no problems, BUT...

When going to phpMyAdmin, I get the error from phpMyAdmin as follows:

Cannot load mysqli extension. Please c         


        

Answer 1

I had path variable in windows set to some random version of php.

The fix was to update it and set it to the folder within my wampserver installation:

C:\wamp64\bin\php\php5.6.38

Then I realized this is wrong also for my specific case, and I should actually be running the script from within vagrant. Live and learn.