EA4 Migration to enable MySQLi extension

[carolainn]

I need mysqli on my VPS Server.
Although I upgraded the php/Apache version, phpinfo shows the author of the MySQLi, but it does not appear to be enabled.
I edited the phpini with WHM and added extension=mysql.so, but it did not work either.
I tried to enable MySQLi in WHM with EasyApache 3 but in the Exhaustive Options List, the MySQL improved extension is NOT listed.
So, I figure that migrating to EasyApache4 would solved the problem, but because I'm a rookie doing this and don't want to make a mess, I need help.
1) Would migrating to EA4 solved my issue?
2) Would migrating to EA4 be safe with this pre-flight warnings?

Pre-flight check result.
Cpanel Migrate Blocker (Cpanel)
Cpanel evaluates known issues such as network connectivity

• Warning: EasyApache 4 does not support the requested Apache version, v2.2. The system will upgrade you to v2.4.
• Warning: “Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::MailHeaders” ignored since it does not have an RPM.
• Warning: “Cpanel::Easy::Apache::SlowRestartPatch” ignored since it does not have an RPM.
• Warning: “Cpanel::Easy::Apache::Fileprotect” ignored since it does not have an RPM.
• Warning: “Cpanel::Easy::Apache::Access” ignored since it does not have an RPM.
• Warning: Current profile has the following MPMs: ea-apache24-mod_mpm_prefork
• Warning: Adding the missing package, ea-apache24-mod_suexec, to the EasyApache 4 profile.
  

Thank you so much.
Carol.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

1. Here's a thread explaining how MySQLi works with EasyApache 4:

SOLVED - Mysqli not in easy apache 4

2. You can review the following thread for more information about the pre-flight check results:

EA3 to EA4 warnings, should I worry?

Let us know if this helps.

Thank you.

 

[carolainn]

So, when I wanted to update to EA4 I got the messagge:

Error: yum is too old for ea4 (it does not support the --assumeno flag), please update yum (yum update -y yum) and try again.

Then tried to update yum:

yum update -y yum

But didn't worked out.
So, after searching for answers here, I found this thread that helped me: SOLVED - Yum is too old for ea4 - EasyApache 4 Upgrade Fails

This did the magic:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
mv CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Base.repo.backup
cp -a CentOS-Base.repo.rpmnew CentOS-Base.repo
yum clean all

Now I have some other issues, but that's on a new thread! Thank you so much!