phpmyadmin mcrypt extension is missing

Question

I'm using CentOS 6 and the latest phpMyAdmin (4.0.1.4) and I noticed the error "The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration."

I went ahead and ran:

 rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

then ran:

yum install php-mycrypt

Then restarted httpd services and still no luck.

Any idea how I can get it to go away?

Answer 1

According to this post, you should edit /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini and change

; Enable mcrypt extension module
extension=module.so

to

; Enable mcrypt extension module
extension=mcrypt.so

and then restart.

Answer 2

On Ubuntu Try this for your mcrypt problem:

mv -i /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available/
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
sudo service apache2 restart

Answer 3

I know you asked for CentOS 6, but in case someone happens to have the same problem for OSX lion/mountain lion, here is a solution

Basically they make you (re)install libmcrypt and the latest version of php, and if you don't have it, autoconf.

Just follow the tutorial, it should work flawlessly.

Answer 4

In CentOS, Yum did not work for me. I downloaded and installed libmcrypt-*.tar.gz. See similar instruction in this link. http://www.php.net/manual/en/mcrypt.installation.php.

Answer 5

Mac OS X Yosemite

the requested PHP extension mcrypt is missing from your system

I fixed this error by running the following commands in my Terminal :

brew update
brew upgrade
brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
brew install php54-mcrypt