How to enable PDO PHP extension for all PHP versions in cPanel/WHM?

Today, in this tutorial we will illustrate the procedure to enable PDO PHP extension for all PHP versions in cPanel/WHM. In this tutorial, we will learn the following:

#1. How to Enable PDO PHP Extension in WHM?

To enable PHP extension in WHM, follow the below mentioned steps.

• Login to WHM as root.
• Navigate to Software section and then select EasyApache4 from the list. You can search easy in search bar and directly directed to same.

 

 

 

 

 

 

• On the next page, go to Currently Installed Packages and click over Customize.

 

 

 

 

 

 

• List of multiple options will appear on the next page. Scroll down to PHP Extensions and type PDO in the search bar. Refer to the below given imagec
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• List of all PDO extension will appear. Scroll the button given next to PHP version which you want to enable. Click over Next.

 

 

 

 

 

 

• You will be directed to next step and see a message: Preparing selected packages for review....
• Review all the changes and then click over Provision and proceed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• A message appears : Provision process started, which will take few minutes to complete.
• As the procedure completes, a message appears: Provision process is complete.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thus, the steps mentioned above will help you to enable PDO extension for all PHP versions.

#2. How to Install PDO Extension from SSH?

You can install PDO extension from command line by using the commands mentioned below.

• For Ubuntu Linux server, run the following command.

apt-get install php7.0-mysql

• For CentOS Linux server, execute the below given command.

yum -y install php-pdo

*If your server already have PDO extension installed, then you will see the message, that says Error:Nothing to do.

That’s It !

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