PHP PDO exception: could not find driver

Question

Does the MySQL-server and PHP5-MySQLi version have to match in order for a connection to be possible? I\'m currently receiving the error below: I am running BSD. \"Fatal e

Answer 1

I had this same issue on my CentOS install. I had tried to install imagick and hosed my install. When I removed all of my php files and reinstalled something wasn't working right.

I ran:

yum install php-pdo
yum install php-pdo_mysql

After doing those two lines I ran

service httpd restart

and everything came back up and running.