PHP unable to load dynamic library (mongo.so)

My php version is 7.0, but it should work version 5.x too.

If you have this in the file /etc/php/7.0/mods-available/mongo.ini

extension=mongodb.so

Comment that line. After that restart php and it should work.

I solved this problem using the 1.1.9 version of mongodb driver for php 5. First uninstall the current version of mongodb and then install the 1.1.9 version:

sudo pecl uninstall mongodb
sudo pecl install mongodb-1.1.9
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