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Just did a Fresh install on windows 10 of 8.0.2 / PHP 8.0.2.
All went smoothly.
When i go to myphpadmin i get an error
"The mysqli extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration. See our documentation for more information."

The extension is there, correct path, not commented out......so help?

Hi rudytenten,

Can you double-check both Apache and MySQL processes are running in the XAMPP control panel?

I am having pretty much the same problem in xampp 8.0.3. In a fresh install, when I click the phpMyAdmin tab in the welcome dashboard, I get the message:

Your Composer dependencies require the following PHP extensions to be installed: mysqli, openssl

I have edited php.ini to uncomment the lines:

extension=mysqli
extension=openssl

In case it's relevant, I installed xampp in D:\xampp8. I modified every instance of the path /xampp in httpd.conf and httpd.xampp.conf to be D:/xampp8

Hi Erica,

Did you use the installer or any of the zipped versions of xampp?
Did you try to run the setup_xampp.bat script to adjust the paths?

@altrea I used the installer to install xampp, and I just ran xampp_shell.bat, but I'm still getting the same message about mysqli and openssh.

Actually, setup_xampp.bat failed on Test php. I'll try to figure out why.

I just missed a couple places where I needed to change the path in php.ini. Thanks for your help.