title: How to install wordpress with MariaDB?
body: <p>I am trying to install wordpress on my nginx + mariadb</p>
  
  <p>First step of: pointing my url to </p>
  
  <pre><code>http://localhost/wordpress/ 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>is throwing following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I hope many other people are using wordpress with mariadb.</p>
  
  <p>[EDIT]</p>
  
  <p>Using WNMP for bundle installation of ( Nginx + MariaDB + PHP )</p>