The mysqli extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration , even though file is available in defined path

Question

I have followed all the steps mention in https://www.wikihow.com/Install-phpMyAdmin-on-Your-Windows-PC and checked file paths and those are correct.

Even after that I am getting an error "The mysqli extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration"

I have verified my extensions are uncommented and correct paths has been giving.

Here is the lines which I have added in httpd.conf

LoadModule php7_module "C:/Program Files (x86)/php/php7apache2_4.dll"
   AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
   PHPIniDir "C:/Program Files (x86)/php/" 

And here is my php.ini file.

 extension=C:/Program Files (x86)/php/ext/php_curl.dll
 extension=C:/Program Files (x86)/php/ext/php_gd2.dll
   extension=C:/Program Files (x86)/php/ext/php_intl.dll
   extension=C:/Program Files (x86)/php/ext/php_mbstring.dll
   extension=C:/Program Files (x86)/php/ext/php_mysqli.dll
   extension=C:/Program Files (x86)/php/ext/php_openssl.dll
   extension=C:/Program Files (x86)/php/ext/php_soap.dll
   extension=C:/Program Files (x86)/php/ext/php_xmlrpc.dll

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

In your php.ini file set the extension_dir to C:/Program Files (x86)/php/ext then change the extension values to simply the name of the extension.

extension_dir = "C:/Program Files (x86)/php/ext"

extension=php_curl.dll
extension=php_gd2.dll
extension=php_intl.dll
extension=php_mbstring.dll
extension=php_mysqli.dll
extension=php_openssl.dll
extension=php_soap.dll
extension=php_xmlrpc.dll