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

If you can, run :

composer update

composer require doctrine/dbal

It looks like you have a missing dependency

Edit:

You might need to comment out the following in your php.ini file.

;extension=pdo_mysql.so

Taken from this post: Laravel 5 PDOException Could Not Find Driver . I think I had to do something exactly like this when setting up laravel on digital ocean.