The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration

ubuntu phpmyadmin ubuntu-13.10 linux-mint
crgsqdmn picture crgsqdmn · Mar 28, 2014 · Viewed 73.6k times · Source

I just followed the tutorial located at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu while fixing multiple other errors that I came across along the way and I'm stuck with one last error. When I log in to phpMyAdmin, there's a huge red error at the bottom saying "The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration.". I installed everything listed in the tutorial on Ubuntu 13.10 via putty.

Answer

Marc Delisle picture Marc Delisle · Mar 29, 2014

Try this:

sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available
sudo php5enmod mcrypt 
sudo service apache2 restart

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