After a quick LAMP install, I decided to install PhpMyAdmin. Logging into I noticed a warring message that read:
The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration
To resolve this I attempted the following:
- Elevated my console to root (sudo -i)
- apt-get install mcrypt
- apt-get install php5-mcrypt (no need because the previous command did it for me)
- php5enmod mcrypt
- service apache2 restart
If the above steps don’t work introduce the following: ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available
Now my LAMP install is complete.
One reply on “The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration”
Cheers mate, this helped! Didn’t need to create the symlink, either.
Thanks again.