Friday, September 11, 2015

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysqli_connect() in index.php on line 8

Situation: This error is seen when trying to start the Apache server after configuring the php files in the htdocs.

Indicators: This can be due to the following possible reasons.

-> The php module is not added in the httpd.conf.
-> The php5-mysql is not loaded.

Solution: Check on the server, if the php-mysql is loaded by using the following command.

yum list php-mysql

incase if the o/p as following:



This means that the package needs to be installed using the following command.

yum install php-mysql

Once done, Apache needs to be restarted and the above error will disappear from the logs.


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