Thanks all. I have now resolved. For future reference, the problem was as you said, I didn't have php configured for mysql support. I traced this back to the installation of the operating system, Red Hat 7.2. Through the graphical installation, all php modules apart from mysql support and odbc support are installed by default. These two have to be specifically chosen, which I didn't do. Anyway problem now resolved
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