I'm trying to get phpmyadmin working with mysql(mariadb fork).
I get this error message in the browser when I try to access phpmyadmin:
> phpMyAdmin - Error The mysqli extension is missing. Please check your
> PHP configuration. <a href="Documentation.html#faqmysql"
> target="documentation"><img src="themes/dot.gif" title="Documentation"
> alt="Documentation" class="icon ic_b_help" /></a>
So I added the following line to /etc/php.ini:
extension=/usr/lib64/php/modules/mysqli.so
Now when I start up apache, I get the following error in php_errors.log:
[12-Feb-2013 00:09:44] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib64/php/modules/mysqli.so' - libmysqlclient.so.16: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
Here is the output of an ldd command on mysqli.so:
[ollie@localhost modules]$ ldd mysqli.so
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffd29ff000)
libmysqlclient.so.16 => not found
libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007ffd84b10000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007ffd848d9000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib64/libnsl.so.1 (0x00007ffd846c0000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007ffd8443b000)
libssl.so.10 => /usr/lib64/libssl.so.10 (0x00007ffd841e0000)
libcrypto.so.10 => /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.10 (0x00007ffd83e46000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007ffd83ab2000)
libfreebl3.so => /lib64/libfreebl3.so (0x00007ffd83850000)
libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00007ffd8360e000)
libkrb5.so.3 => /lib64/libkrb5.so.3 (0x00007ffd8332e000)
libcom_err.so.2 => /lib64/libcom_err.so.2 (0x00007ffd8312a000)
libk5crypto.so.3 => /lib64/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00007ffd82efe000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007ffd82cf9000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ffd84f5f000)
libkrb5support.so.0 => /lib64/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00007ffd82aee000)
libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x00007ffd828eb000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib64/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007ffd826d0000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ffd824b3000)
libselinux.so.1 => /lib64/libselinux.so.1 (0x00007ffd82293000)
I confirmed that libmysqlclient.so.16 is under /usr/lib. I tried adding /usr/lib to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable but that had no effect.
Here are some more details on my environment:
CentOS: 6.3
PHP: 5.3.3
DB version:
mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 5.5.29-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using readline 5.1