Craft CMS 3 - I have used the CLI ./craft setup script to set the database connection on my local machine. I setup a MySQL connection, but when it attempts to validate my credentials, I get "failed: could not find driver". However, when I make a direct MySQL CLI connection using the same credentials, it works just fine. Why can Craft CMS not connect to my local database?
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1Do you have secure.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-mysql.php installed? – Brad Bell Nov 1 '17 at 17:09
For anyone from the future, this worked for me utilizing Ubuntu 16.0.4 with PHP7.2:
Try this command:
sudo phpenmod pdo_mysql
If it says it cant find the package, install this:
sudo apt-get install php7.2-mysql
Check your active php.ini file for this line(my active .ini was located n /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini):
;extension=pdo_mysql
If it has a semicolon before it, remove it, and then save. For good measure, run this again:
sudo phpenmod pdo_mysql
Restart apache. Good day.
