On 09/04/2016 02:36 PM, Chris wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server running postfix, courier, Squirrelmail for quite some > time without any issues. Now I upgraded the server to Ubuntu 16.04 which > comes with PHP 7. > > After migration, everything's working, except Squirrelmail. When I login > with the right credentials (Thunderbird etc. is working), the message is > shown: "Einstellungsdatenbank fehlerhaft (extension not found). > Abbruch.". This means something along the lines of "settings databank > has errors (extension not found). Aborting." > > configtest.php shows "ERROR: mysql database support not present!" > > That is strange, because php7.0-mysql is installed and working. > > Any hint on what I could do to get it running? Or no chance to get > Squirrelmail working on Ubuntu 16.04 with PHP 7? > > Thanks, Chris > PHP extension=mysql.so was deprecated as of PHP 5.5 and removed in php7. You must use extension=mysqli.so or extension=pdo_mysql.so. I have removed php7 and dropped back to php 5.6. Ubuntu should provide the same option. It will take another year or so for all webapps to transition to php7 the changes are fairly substantial. I don't know what the schedule is for squirrelmail or how far along it is, others will have to chime in. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
