cannot enable mysqli on joomla

Question

I have a shared hosting account on Hostmonster, on which I just installed the Joomla CMS. I also added a plugin which I just found out requires MySQLi driver to function properly.

So I did some googling which advided me to change a few minimum required settings in PHP.ini and also added the mysqli extention with

extension=php_mysqli.dll

but when I change the database setting in Joomla to MySQLi the Save button doesn't respond.

I have checked all minimum requirements and am very sure I meet all of them.

Answer 1

I just had a look at the hostmonster website and it looks like they only offer linux hosting. If this is the case then your extension line should be

extension=php_mysqli.so

The '.dll' extension only applies to Windows.