Can't use PHP extension Mcrypt in Ubuntu 13.10 (Nginx, PHP-FPM)
I had the same problem after I upgraded to 13.10 this evening. Apparently this is a genuine Ubuntu 13.10 bug: “phpmyadmin do not recognize php5-mcrypt”. The PHP modules got moved from the conf.d
directory to the mods-available
directory, and the mcrypt module got left behind.
To fix it I put a symlink to the mcrypt.ini
file in the PHP config.
Apache
If you use Apache (rather than php-fpm):
sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/20-mcrypt.ini
sudo service apache2 restart
php-fpm
Or for php-fpm (rather than Apache):
Make symbolic link to ini files in mods-available
sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available/mcrypt.ini
Enable mods
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
Restart FPM
sudo service php5-fpm restart