title: How Enable MySQLi Extension on PHP7 (LAMP / CPANEL)?
body: <p>My server upgraded to PHP7 and now I am getting an error which reads "Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress."</p>
  
  <p>I have tried adding <code>extension=php_mysqli.so</code> to my PHP INI but that doesn't seem to help.  I am on a LAMP with CentOS and Apache 2.4 with MariaDB 10.0...  All was working before the update.  \</p>
  
  <p>php -m shows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[PHP Modules]
  bcmath
  bz2
  calendar
  Core
  ctype
  curl
  date
  dba
  dom
  enchant
  ereg
  exif
  fileinfo
  filter
  ftp
  gd
  gettext
  gmp
  hash
  iconv
  imap
  intl
  ionCube Loader
  json
  ldap
  libxml
  mbstring
  mcrypt
  mhash
  mysql
  mysqli
  mysqlnd
  odbc
  openssl
  pcntl
  pcre
  PDO
  pdo_mysql
  PDO_ODBC
  pdo_pgsql
  pdo_sqlite
  pgsql
  Phar
  posix
  pspell
  readline
  Reflection
  session
  shmop
  SimpleXML
  snmp
  soap
  sockets
  SourceGuardian
  SPL
  sqlite3
  standard
  sysvmsg
  sysvsem
  sysvshm
  tidy
  tokenizer
  wddx
  xml
  xmlreader
  xmlrpc
  xmlwriter
  xsl
  Zend Guard Loader
  Zend OPcache
  zip
  zlib
  
  [Zend Modules]
  Zend Guard Loader
  Zend OPcache
  the ionCube PHP Loader
  </code></pre>