Laravel: PDOException: could not find driver

Question

I am developing a website on a server I only have access to MySQL and FTP, so all commands I run are through the b374k php shell . I am experiencing a Laravel problem with S

Answer 1

Some Additional information for people who upgraded their php version.

This is for laravel framework using MySql or MariaDB.

I had issues after upgrading php version from 7.2 to 7.4.

1. Make sure you completely install php extentions and packages for php version 7.4 (Or your installed php version).
2. Make sure you enable these extentions. pdo_mysql, xmlrpc, mbstring, mysqli, openssl, fileinfo, gd2, curl at php.ini.
3. Then clear cache, config
4. Restart all services such as apache, supervisor

Answer 2

First check php -m
.If you don't see mysql driver install mysql sudo apt-cache search php-mysql
Your results will be similar to:

php-mysql - MySQL module for PHP [default]

install php- mysql Driver

sudo apt-get install php7.1-mysql

Answer 3

I had a similar issue in Ubuntu 16.04 and what help me was that i installed php-mysql for php 7.2. I would recommend you run the following command if you have php 7.2 or install php mysql depending on your version of PHP. Make sure that you have installed the DBAL packege

apt-get install php7.2-mysql

systemctl restart apache2

Answer 4

In CentOS7，I try this: yum install php-mysql, then edit php.ini

Answer 5

if you have installed new version of php 7.2+ then you have to uncomment this line in php.ini ;extension=pdo_mysql

Answer 6

For me, php.ini was OK, but I needed to restart php artisan serve.