Ошибка could not find driver

I have just installed Debian Lenny with Apache, MySQL, and PHP and I am receiving a PDOException could not find driver.

This is the specific line of code it is referring to:

$dbh = new PDO('mysql:host=' . DB_HOST . ';dbname=' . DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASS)

DB_HOST, DB_NAME, DB_USER, and DB_PASS are constants that I have defined. It works fine on the production server (and on my previous Ubuntu Server setup).

Is this something to do with my PHP installation?

Searching the internet has not helped, all I get is experts-exchange and examples, but no solutions.

Check if the module is available with php -m | grep pdo_mysql.

If not, for PHP 7.2, you can install relevant package with sudo apt install php7.2-mysql.

Use similar command on other PHP versions and package managers.

answered Jul 4, 2019 at 5:30

answered Dec 19, 2017 at 16:18

Did you check your php.ini (check for the correct location with phpinfo()) if MySQL and the driver is installed correctly?

For PHP 5.5 on CentOS I fixed this by installing the php55-mysqlnd package.

sudo yum -y install php55w-mysqlnd # For Webtatic
sudo yum -y install php55u-mysqlnd # For Remi

For help installing, write a comment as it depends on the way PHP is installed on your system. Available repo’s are webtatic and remi.

answered Jul 23, 2014 at 9:22

Incorrect installation of PHP was being called

I was experiencing the same problem. And I hope this would help someone who is having a similar issue as me.

Scenario

OS = Windows 10  
Platform = XAMPP  
PHP Version = 7 (Multiple Version seem to have been installed in the PC)  

I created phpinfo.php file in the public folder and run the phpinfo() to look for the location of my php.ini file.

PHP.ini Location = c:\xampp\php\php.ini

Problem
Calling c:\xampp\htdocs> php -v returned PHP 7.2.3 but phpinfo.php showed PHP 7.2.2.

Solution
Instead of calling

php artisan migrate:install   

which gave me this error, I used

c:\xampp\php\php artisan migrate:install

and it worked.

answered Sep 21, 2018 at 10:21

answered Aug 18, 2012 at 14:02

In my case my DSN string was incorrect, specifically it did not contain mysql://. I would have expected a different error message, perhaps something like ‘DSN string does not specify driver/protocol.’

Adding mysql:// to the beginning of the DSN string resolved the issue.

I spent the last day trying to figure out why I was getting the following error. I am running Ubuntu 14.04.

The Problem:
I noticed that my PHP-CLI version was running php7.0 but php_info() (the web version) was displaying php 5.5.9. Even though php_info() said pdo was enabled, using the command line (CLI) wasn’t recognizing the pdo_mysql command. It turns out that mysql was enabled for my old version but not the CLI version. All I did was install mysql for php7.0 and it was able to work.

This is what worked:

To check the version:

php -v

To install mysql for php7.0

sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql

1) make sure your CLI version is the same as your web version
2) If they are different, make sure your CLI version has the mysql plug-in since it doesn’t come with it as a default.

answered Jan 4, 2017 at 20:31

answered Dec 8, 2015 at 6:36

I extremely recommend mysqllnd instead of mysql because of you would have a lot of problems like number converting and bit type evaluates problem with mysql extension.

on ubuntu install mysqllnd with following command:

sudo apt-get install php5-mysqlnd

answered Sep 17, 2016 at 17:21

In my case, I was using PDO with php-cli, and it worked fine.

Only when I tried to connect from apache, I got the «missing driver» issue, which I didn’t quite understand.

A simple apt-get install php-mysql solved it. (Ubuntu 16.04 / PHP7. credits go to the selected answer & Ivan’s comment)

Hope it can help.

answered Oct 31, 2016 at 14:46

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught PDOException: could not find driver

I struggled and struggled with «apt install php-mysql php7toInfinity and don’t forget sqlite-what-ever’s» and just could not get rid of this error message until I went back to basics and reset the file-permissions on the web-site in question.

These 3 commands reset file and folder permissions on the web-site and got it to work again.

cd /var/www/web-site-name.com/web/

# find (sub) directories and change permissions
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

# find files and change permissions
find . -type f -exec chmod 664 '{}' \;

answered Aug 18, 2019 at 18:48

I faced the same issue after I removed the php5 package (that includes all the drivers as well) in order to install php7 package. I actually installed php7 package without a mysql module.

I managed to solve it by typing in the terminal:

1) $ apt-cache search php7
which lists all the modules, looking through the modules I found,

php7.0-mysql — MySQL module for PHP

2) $ sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql

That’s it. It worked for me in my linux system.

(use the appropriate php version, yours could be php5)

answered May 10, 2016 at 12:38

Just one other thing to confirm as some people are copy/pasting example code from the Internet to get started. Make sure you have MySQL entered here:

... $dbh = new PDO ("mysql: ...  

In some examples this shows

$dbh = new PDO ("dblib ...

For those using Symfony2/3 and wondering why you’re getting this error. If you’re using «mapping_types», you might encounter this error. The reason is that «mapping_types» is placed at the wrong level. For instance :

doctrine:
  dbal:
    mapping_types:
        set: string

This «mapping_types» must be placed at this level :

doctrine:
dbal:
    #To counter the error caused by 'mapping_types'
    connections:
        default:
            server_version: %database_server_version%
            mapping_types:
                set: string

I hope this helps

I found the solution here : https://github.com/doctrine/DoctrineBundle/issues/327

answered Feb 17, 2017 at 20:07

Everywhere I go I read that the path of extension_dir should be changed from ext to an absolute path. It worked for me. However, when trying to build a server of my colleague’s PC, I had to let the value to ext instead of putting an absolute path.

If you did put an absolute path and it does the extension is still not found, considerer trying both with the absolute path and ext.

answered Feb 13, 2018 at 10:42

answered May 29, 2019 at 19:42

Had the same issue, because I forgot to go into my virtual machine. If I go to my local directory like this:

cd /www/homestead/my_project
php artisan migrate

that error will appear. But it works on my virtual machine

cd ~/homestead
vagrant ssh   
cd /www/homestead/my_project
php artisan migrate

answered Jun 21, 2019 at 7:16

I have just installed Debian Lenny with Apache, MySQL, and PHP and I am receiving a PDOException could not find driver.

This is the specific line of code it is referring to:

$dbh = new PDO('mysql:host=' . DB_HOST . ';dbname=' . DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASS)

DB_HOST, DB_NAME, DB_USER, and DB_PASS are constants that I have defined. It works fine on the production server (and on my previous Ubuntu Server setup).

Is this something to do with my PHP installation?

Searching the internet has not helped, all I get is experts-exchange and examples, but no solutions.

Check if the module is available with php -m | grep pdo_mysql.

If not, for PHP 7.2, you can install relevant package with sudo apt install php7.2-mysql.

Use similar command on other PHP versions and package managers.

answered Jul 4, 2019 at 5:30

answered Dec 19, 2017 at 16:18

Did you check your php.ini (check for the correct location with phpinfo()) if MySQL and the driver is installed correctly?

For PHP 5.5 on CentOS I fixed this by installing the php55-mysqlnd package.

sudo yum -y install php55w-mysqlnd # For Webtatic
sudo yum -y install php55u-mysqlnd # For Remi

For help installing, write a comment as it depends on the way PHP is installed on your system. Available repo’s are webtatic and remi.

answered Jul 23, 2014 at 9:22

Incorrect installation of PHP was being called

I was experiencing the same problem. And I hope this would help someone who is having a similar issue as me.

Scenario

OS = Windows 10  
Platform = XAMPP  
PHP Version = 7 (Multiple Version seem to have been installed in the PC)  

I created phpinfo.php file in the public folder and run the phpinfo() to look for the location of my php.ini file.

PHP.ini Location = c:\xampp\php\php.ini

Problem
Calling c:\xampp\htdocs> php -v returned PHP 7.2.3 but phpinfo.php showed PHP 7.2.2.

Solution
Instead of calling

php artisan migrate:install   

which gave me this error, I used

c:\xampp\php\php artisan migrate:install

and it worked.

answered Sep 21, 2018 at 10:21

answered Aug 18, 2012 at 14:02

In my case my DSN string was incorrect, specifically it did not contain mysql://. I would have expected a different error message, perhaps something like ‘DSN string does not specify driver/protocol.’

Adding mysql:// to the beginning of the DSN string resolved the issue.

I spent the last day trying to figure out why I was getting the following error. I am running Ubuntu 14.04.

The Problem:
I noticed that my PHP-CLI version was running php7.0 but php_info() (the web version) was displaying php 5.5.9. Even though php_info() said pdo was enabled, using the command line (CLI) wasn’t recognizing the pdo_mysql command. It turns out that mysql was enabled for my old version but not the CLI version. All I did was install mysql for php7.0 and it was able to work.

This is what worked:

To check the version:

php -v

To install mysql for php7.0

sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql

1) make sure your CLI version is the same as your web version
2) If they are different, make sure your CLI version has the mysql plug-in since it doesn’t come with it as a default.

answered Jan 4, 2017 at 20:31

answered Dec 8, 2015 at 6:36

I extremely recommend mysqllnd instead of mysql because of you would have a lot of problems like number converting and bit type evaluates problem with mysql extension.

on ubuntu install mysqllnd with following command:

sudo apt-get install php5-mysqlnd

answered Sep 17, 2016 at 17:21

In my case, I was using PDO with php-cli, and it worked fine.

Only when I tried to connect from apache, I got the «missing driver» issue, which I didn’t quite understand.

A simple apt-get install php-mysql solved it. (Ubuntu 16.04 / PHP7. credits go to the selected answer & Ivan’s comment)

Hope it can help.

answered Oct 31, 2016 at 14:46

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught PDOException: could not find driver

I struggled and struggled with «apt install php-mysql php7toInfinity and don’t forget sqlite-what-ever’s» and just could not get rid of this error message until I went back to basics and reset the file-permissions on the web-site in question.

These 3 commands reset file and folder permissions on the web-site and got it to work again.

cd /var/www/web-site-name.com/web/

# find (sub) directories and change permissions
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

# find files and change permissions
find . -type f -exec chmod 664 '{}' \;

answered Aug 18, 2019 at 18:48

I faced the same issue after I removed the php5 package (that includes all the drivers as well) in order to install php7 package. I actually installed php7 package without a mysql module.

I managed to solve it by typing in the terminal:

1) $ apt-cache search php7
which lists all the modules, looking through the modules I found,

php7.0-mysql — MySQL module for PHP

2) $ sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql

That’s it. It worked for me in my linux system.

(use the appropriate php version, yours could be php5)

answered May 10, 2016 at 12:38

Just one other thing to confirm as some people are copy/pasting example code from the Internet to get started. Make sure you have MySQL entered here:

... $dbh = new PDO ("mysql: ...  

In some examples this shows

$dbh = new PDO ("dblib ...

For those using Symfony2/3 and wondering why you’re getting this error. If you’re using «mapping_types», you might encounter this error. The reason is that «mapping_types» is placed at the wrong level. For instance :

doctrine:
  dbal:
    mapping_types:
        set: string

This «mapping_types» must be placed at this level :

doctrine:
dbal:
    #To counter the error caused by 'mapping_types'
    connections:
        default:
            server_version: %database_server_version%
            mapping_types:
                set: string

I hope this helps

I found the solution here : https://github.com/doctrine/DoctrineBundle/issues/327

answered Feb 17, 2017 at 20:07

Everywhere I go I read that the path of extension_dir should be changed from ext to an absolute path. It worked for me. However, when trying to build a server of my colleague’s PC, I had to let the value to ext instead of putting an absolute path.

If you did put an absolute path and it does the extension is still not found, considerer trying both with the absolute path and ext.

answered Feb 13, 2018 at 10:42

answered May 29, 2019 at 19:42

Had the same issue, because I forgot to go into my virtual machine. If I go to my local directory like this:

cd /www/homestead/my_project
php artisan migrate

that error will appear. But it works on my virtual machine

cd ~/homestead
vagrant ssh   
cd /www/homestead/my_project
php artisan migrate

answered Jun 21, 2019 at 7:16