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

Finally I fixed this. There was a typo in the server configuration and all paths to php extecutables were fine except the path to php-cli, which caused the error. When I fixed the path, everything worked fine.

Answer 2

I faced the same problem while using sqlite 3:

1. Make sure the changes made on .env.example and the same on the .env file.
2. Then run $ sudo apt-get install php-sqlite3 on terminal.
3. Finally $ php artisan migrate.

Answer 3

You need to enable these extensions in the php.ini file

Before:

;extension=pdo_mysql
;extension=mysqli
;extension=pdo_sqlite
;extension=sqlite3

After:

extension=pdo_mysql
extension=mysqli
extension=pdo_sqlite
extension=sqlite3

It is advisable that you also activate the fileinfo extension, many packages require this.