title: Wordpress localhost installation error - Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress
body: <p>I know this question has been asked N number of times but I can't seem to get it worked.  I am trying to install wordpress on my local VM machine.  I have mysql running fine as shown below.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    vishal@ubuntu:/etc/apache2$ mysql -u root -p
      Enter password: 
      Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
      Your MySQL connection id is 39
      Server version: 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.10 (Ubuntu)
  
      Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
  
       mysql&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Despite multiple attempts I am getting below error :
  "Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress"</p>
  
  <p>I have tried to uncomment extension_dir with exact path of myql.so and put extension as mysql.so.</p>
  
  <p>I have two php.ini files which I am not sure correct or not. One is present in /etc/apache2
  /phi.ini and second is present in /etc/php5/cli/php.ini.  </p>
  
  <p>There is no php.ini file in /etc/php5.  I tried installing many times but it does not appear there.</p>
  
  <p>Both are referring to actual mysql.so library path and mention extension as mysql.so</p>
  
  <p>Could anyone please suggest what could possibly going wrong ?  Thank you !</p>