Installing pdo_mysql on Amazon EC2 with PHP 5.5

Question

I've created an Amazon Linux AMI 2013.09.02 server and installed the following:

yum install php55 php55-mbstring php55-soap php55-gd php55-mcrypt php55-pdo httpd24

Apache and PHP work fine. But I need pdo_mysql.so for a legacy version of Doctrine (1.x). I cannot find out how to get pdo_mysql.so onto this system. That file is not within the /user/lib64/php/5.5/modules/ folder.

Suggestions?

Answer 1

Install the package php55-mysqlnd. I believe this will provide mysql support to PDO.

Edit: For PHP 5.6 support, the package is php56-mysqlnd.

For PHP 7.0 support, the package is php70-mysqlnd.

For PHP 7.1 support, the package is php71-mysqlnd.