Installing Drupal

I am ought to install all necessary php extensions to use PHPMyAdmin, Composer and Drupal (9/10).

Why does Drupal need libapache2-mod-php?

What does this php extension do that Drupal needs?

I am not a PHP programmer and very much not a sysadmin so I am not looking for a very detailed or invested answer, just for a simple explanation for laymen who aren't PHP programmers.

gettext or php-seclib aren't mentioned in the current PHPMyAdmin, Composer or Drupal system requirements pages (they may have been in the past or will be in the future). 

Yet I do recall a need to install these over the years from some articles or in some usecases (I might misrecall).

Are gettext or php-seclib needed for Composer or Drupal (or PHPMyAdmin)?

I am asking both about Drupal 9 and Drupal 10.

I tried to install PHPMYADMIN to see if I could enable the database support easier and it really messed things up so the page didnt even pull up anymore so I removed it.  After a reboot I got to the drupal install page and had no errors and am now completing the setup.

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Hello,

Been about a decade since I installed a Drupal site and I cant seem to get past the one error about database support being disabled.  My site has the following packages installed:

Ubuntu 22.04 (Zorin 16)

php8.2

I read all the documentation and spent a lot of time getting this to work.  I tried to troubleshoot and I can see what is going on but don't know what the root of the problem is.  Once I know the root problem, it's probably easy to fix.

This is a dev environment on my local machine serving 3 fictitious sites so I modified my hosts file like this:

127.0.0.1 site1.com

127.0.0.1 site2.com

127.0.0.1 site3.com

I have my folders setup this way

Prior to explaining the problem I will note that Drupal is installed on Ubuntu via WSL. I can load the localhost/drupal, when I load the page I just get a plane text page without stylesheet.

I use the LAMP stack.

I tried to look for the requested CSS myself but /sites/default/css doesn't exist. Also does localhost/drupal/admin this gives me a 404 page.