Installing PDO_MYSQL PHP extension on CPanel?

Question

I recieved this error while installing Magento on a customer\'s server, \'PHP Extension \"pdo_mysql\" must be loaded\'. How would one go about installing/enabling this exten

Answer 1

I'm using Magento CE 1.7, CentOS 6, and WHM 11.38, and here's what I did to resolve the 'PHP Extension "pdo_mysql" must be loaded' error I received during my Magento install:

1. Open WHM and go to Home » Software » Easy Apache (Apache Update)
2. Scroll to the bottom and select "Start customizing based on profile"
3. Click "Next step" twice
4. Scroll to the bottom and select "Exhaustive Options List"
5. Select checkboxes for PDO and PDO MySQL, and rebuild Apache
6. Go to Magento's root, copy php.ini.sample to php.ini

7. Open the newly created php.ini file and add the following:

   extension=pdo.so
   extension=pdo_sqlite.so
   extension=sqlite.so
   extension=pdo_mysql.so
   

This might be a good time to restart Apache using terminal (# service httpd restart). Hope that helps!