Thread:Project:Support desk/Fatal error update to Mediawii 1.23: DatabaseBase::factory no viable database extension found for type 'mysql'/reply (5)

> A bit off-topic: Why does the questioner not get a helpful error message like "You are using PHP version x.y.z but MediaWiki needs PHP 5.3.2 or higher."? That message was what people got in the past - is that broken now?

If te code not lies, there is still a PHP version error message in update script:

https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/blob/master/maintenance/update.php

So, i think it's a host configuration problem in some tricky way :)