The requested PDO driver is not supported

[B_Hay]

I went through the installation instructions posted online. I went through all the setup instructions that were presented to me after navigating to http://www.your-domain.org/admidio/index.php. After I enter all the required information i am presented with a screen that says

The connection to the database failed!

The following error occurred:
The requested PDO driver is not supported

Which PDO driver is it looking for? I did a little digging and thought it might have been the mysql driver so i installed it, restarted apache, deleted the admidio folder from web directory and copied over a clean directory. then i went through the installation again and again i got the same error. I am trying to install this on a Digital ocean droplet on Ubuntu 14.04, using mysql 5.5.54-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.21, and Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu). If anybody can shed some light upon this problem I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

[XimeX]

Have yo set "$gDbType" in "config.php"? If yes: what is the value?

[fasse]

We support MySql and PostgreSql, so you need the PDO driver for your choosen database. In most cases it should be MySql.

Maybe it's something wrong with your installation of the pdo driver ?!?

[B_Hay]

We support MySql and PostgreSql, so you need the PDO driver for your choosen database. In most cases it should be MySql.

Maybe it's something wrong with your installation of the pdo driver ?!?

Is PHP 5 supported in 3.2.4?

[fasse]

Yes, PHP 5.3.7 and above.

[B_Hay]

Yes, PHP 5.3.7 and above.

How do i go about troubleshooting the PDO driver? Looking at the PHP manual online, it tells me that installing php5-mysql from the ubuntu repositories will install the PDO_MYSQL extension. Is there more I have to do? I'm pretty green when it comes to php. Thanks again for the help.

Brian

[B_Hay]

Yes, PHP 5.3.7 and above.

How do i go about troubleshooting the PDO driver? Looking at the PHP manual online, it tells me that installing php5-mysql from the ubuntu repositories will install the PDO_MYSQL extension. Is there more I have to do? I'm pretty green when it comes to php. Thanks again for the help.

Brian

Ok, so I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop and quickly went through the installation. It worked. From what I understand, Digital Ocean creates their own packages. This would lead me to believe they have done something to the PDO driver.