Could not find PDO driver when installing laravel 5 on CentOS 7 with DigitalOcean

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I'm trying to get my offline Laravel 5 webapp deployed. First of all I created a new droplet at DigitalOcean. Via ssh access I installed a fully working LAMP stack (I got the apache test-page at my ip-address).

After that, I pulled my git repo into the /var/www/html folder. Using composer install all my dependencies were installed.

When I visit my-ip-addres/public, I get a laravel error

PDOException in Connector.php line 55: could not find driver

I thought maybe my PDO module wasn't installed correctly but when I look in my phpinfo() file, everything looks correct.

Is there anyone who can help me out with this problem?

try to follow this link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2852748/pdoexception-could-not-find-driver — Gouda Elalfy, Dec 27 '15 at 15:49
when I try that, I get the error: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo_mysql.dll' — Niels Meulders, Dec 27 '15 at 17:21
He wouldn't get a `PDOException` if PDO wasn't installed. Check if you have `mysql-client` and `libmysqlclient` installed. — Daniel W., Dec 28 '15 at 16:57
Is php5-mysql installed on your droplet? -- Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10872606/artisan-could-not-find-driver — Kristoffer Bohmann, Dec 28 '15 at 20:52
I fixed it myself: I had to install everything with the special -php56 extension. Thanks everyone! — Niels Meulders, Apr 06 '16 at 07:50
@NielsMeulders You can go ahead and post the answer rather than just in comment form. — Gerard Roche, Sep 05 '16 at 18:29

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 10 '17 at 11:26

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run this command sudo apt-get install phpX-mysql X: php version (7.0 or 5.6 or ...) and then service apache restart .

answered Aug 10 '17 at 11:26

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Could not find PDO driver when installing laravel 5 on CentOS 7 with DigitalOcean

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