Can not enable mysqli extension - PHP 7.1.12, can't connect to db

Question

I have installed LAMP (everything through dnf/yum) on Fedora 27 but for some reason mysqli extension is disabled or not installed (which i doubt) When I'm trying to open phpMyAdmin i got this error:

phpMyAdmin - Error

The mysqli extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration. See our documentation for more information.

I've read that mysqli should be included in php package, however there is no

extension=php_mysqli.dll

in php.ini (simply adding this line to file doesn't work either) How can I enable mysqli then?

Answer 1

.dll files are for windows, you want .so files. You want something like this:

extension = mysqli.so

You may also have to specify the module directory:

extension_dir = /path/to/your/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-whatever/

Note, depending on your server configuration, you may also have to restart your web and/or PHP service.