Moodle 3.8 Installation Error for PHP has not been properly configured with the MySQLi extension

Re: Moodle 3.8 Installation Error for PHP has not been properly configured with the MySQLi extension

by Howard Miller -
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In that case, your solution is most likely

sudo apt install php-mysql
sudo service apache2 restart

(Unless you are using something other than the standard PHP packages)
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Re: Moodle 3.8 Installation Error for PHP has not been properly configured with the MySQLi extension

by Mohamed Shariff -

I know this is an old post but the information might be helpful to someone still looking for a solution 

I had this issue as well when running php scripts in admin/cli folder after upgrading php to version 7.4

Then after the command: sudo apt-get install php7.4-mysql

I had to install the additional php extension 

php7.4-xml / php7.4-xmlrpc / php7.4-mbstring / php7.4-curl / php7.4-zip / php7.4-gd / php7.4-intl

using the command below

sudo apt-get install php7.4-xml php7.4-xmlrpc php7.4-mbstring php7.4-curl php7.4-zip php7.4-gd php7.4-intl

Hope this will be helpful to anyone

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Re: Moodle 3.8 Installation Error for PHP has not been properly configured with the MySQLi extension

by Tien Do -
Thank you for your answer! You save my time a lot
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