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I upgraded my Ubuntu to version 23.10. This comes with PHP 8.2. I installed MariaDB and php-mysql extension from standard Ubuntu repository.

sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql mariadb-server

MariaDB works well through CLI client, but PHP does not communicate with the database.

My local WordPress installations return this error message:

Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.

Please check that the mysqli PHP extension is installed and enabled.

I found this info:
PHP 8.2: MySQLi can no longer be compiled with libmysqli
https://php.watch/versions/8.2/mysqli-libmysql-no-longer-supported

Could this be the cause? Is there any way to activate MySQL Native Driver in Ubuntu's PHP 8.2?

Update: temporarily resolved by downgrade to PHP 8.1 from ppa:ondrej/php.

Robert Zelník
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What you have described works without problems on a clean freshly installed Ubuntu 23.10. It looks like you broke something while experimenting with ppa:ondrej/php. Ondrej's repo only supports LTS releases, so it will not work with Ubuntu 23.10.

My suggestion is to do some cleanup and reinstall your PHP and required packages.

  1. Remove ppa:ondrej/php:

    sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ondrej/php

  2. Remove the PHP:

    sudo apt purge php*
sudo apt autoremove
sudo rm -rf /etc/php/8.2
sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/php

  3. Install PHP:

    sudo apt install php php-mysql
sudo service apache2 restart
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