Enable PDO in shared server

Question

My newest client has decided (against my heavy recommendation to use my tried and true host..) to use Webmasters.com to host their site.

This is turning into a nightmare... I finally got the full access I needed instead of a child-lock account (couldn't even access root folder people..).

So I finally got the client to cough up the necessary info and put the files on the server just to find: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{, which works fine on localhost. The line that the function fails on is a try block, so I'm guessing PDO isn't working right. Here's the php.ini pdo data.

extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so
extension=pdo_sqlite.so
extension=libpdf_php.so
extension=pfpro.so

Also, the server is Apache 1.x instead of 2.x, but there's an upgrade option. Is this the culprit?

Answer 1

The solution was to upgrade to Apache 2.x

Once I did, PDO worked like a charm. I'm not sure why webmasters.com hosting is running Apache 1.x by default, but given their control panel it doesn't surprise me.