A lot of issues when installing and using Laravel due to improper configurations of UniServer

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I have encountered a lot of difficulties in installing Laravel 11.14.0 on UniServer Zero XV for Windows with PHP 8.3.8, which I have been addressing by adding certain lines to the php_cli file. However, with this issue, I haven't been able to resolve it. The commands work fine, I can create migrations, etc. But when I run `php artisan serve`, it loads a Laravel page with this error:

 

could not find driver (Connection: mysql, SQL: select * from `sessions` where `id` = yuAHVIlnaYeGRCOy90UR6i1iuYfR2bDt7s3ekuBQ limit 1)

 

I have verified that the selected database is mysqli and that the data in the .env file is correct. I have also run the MySQL server, but it continues to give this error.

Something that appears when I run `php artisan serve` is the following:

php artisan serve
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'mysqli' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\mysqli (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_mysqli.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'fileinfo' (tried: 
/core/php83/extensions\fileinfo (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_fileinfo.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'gd' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\gd (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_gd.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'mbstring' (tried: 
/core/php83/extensions\mbstring (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_mbstring.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'exif' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\exif (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_exif.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>n 
known</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'mysqli' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\mysqli (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_mysqli.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'openssl' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\openssl (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_openssl.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_mysqli.dll' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\php_mysqli.dll (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_php_mysqli.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_pdo_mysql.dll' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\php_pdo_mysql.dll (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_php_pdo_mysql.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_fileinfo.dll' 
(tried: /core/php83/extensions\php_fileinfo.dll (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_php_fileinfo.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_gd.dll' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\php_gd.dll (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_php_gd.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_mbstring.dll' 
(tried: /core/php83/extensions\php_mbstring.dll (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_php_mbstring.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_exif.dll' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\php_exif.dll (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_php_exif.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_openssl.dll' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\php_openssl.dll (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_php_openssl.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_sockets.dll' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\php_sockets.dll (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_php_sockets.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br />
  <br />
  <b>Warning</b>:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_zip.dll' (tried: 
/core/php83/extensions\php_zip.dll (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_php_zip.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in Unknown on line 0
  PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_com_dotnet.dll' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\php_com_dotnet.dll (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_php_com_dotnet.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in Unknown on line 0
  PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'sockets' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\sockets (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_sockets.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in Unknown on line 0
  PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'zip' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\zip (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_zip.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in Unknown on 
  PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'com_dotnet' (tried: /core/php83/extensions\com_dotnet (The specified module could not be found), /core/php83/extensions\php_com_dotnet.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in Unknown on line 0

   INFO  Server running on [http://127.0.0.1:8000].

 

Has anyone else experienced this or knows why it happens? I have researched and tried several things, the only solution I found is to use the PHP installation from Wampserver, but I would prefer to use the one from UniServer,  Any help or clue is welcome and please, UniServer team, fix this by making the default configuration compatible with Laravel.