Title: …missing the MySQL extension…
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# …missing the MySQL extension…

 *  840697
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-the-mysql-extension/)
 * trying to setup wp on WinXP sp3, installed Apache2.2 and PHP5, I can test my “
   mysqli” connection with phpinfo():
    —– mysqli —— Client API library version 5.0.51a
   Client API header version 5.0.51a MYSQLI_SOCKET /tmp/mysql.sock
 * Directive Local Value Master Value
    ———— ———— ———— mysqli.default_host no value
   no value mysqli.default_port 3306 3306 mysqli.default_pw no value no value mysqli.
   default_socket no value no value mysqli.default_user no value no value mysqli.
   max_links Unlimited Unlimited mysqli.reconnect On On ———————————— the I have 
   setup a database in MySQL called wordpress and configured the “wp-config.php”
   accordingly.
 * Don’t understand where is the error coming from…

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 *  [sojweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sojweb/)
 * (@sojweb)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-the-mysql-extension/#post-827864)
 * WordPress doesn’t support the mysqli extension; but you can modify it to do so.
   See this thread: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/212687](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/212687)

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