PostgreSql 'PDOException' with message 'could not find driver'

Question

pdo is working fine with mysql but with pgsql its giving error \'PDOException\' with message \'could not find driver\' I\'ve installed php5-pgsql p

Answer 1

When you do not have postgresql installed on the same machine that is Apache and PHP; you have to install php-pgsql and don't have to add extensions in php.ini manually in Linux (in Windows yes), because redundancies are generated and this does not work (checked in error.log).

$ sudo apt install php-pgsql

Then you can check the existence of the extension enabled automatically in:

$ sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d/10-pdo.ini

Observations: In phpinfo() you will find the directory conf.d/ and the file error.log

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