Mcrypt PHP extension required

Question

I installed laravel via composer, but when running the site its giving an error of

Mcrypt PHP extension required.

I installed php5-mcrypt also, but still the error persist.

Answer 1

Mcrypt is installed but not enabled use

sudo php5enmod mcrypt
sudo service apache2 restart

Answer 2

You need to check that wheather the configuration files has been linked properly.It can be done via php5enmod .

Remove the symlink created by

sudo rm /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/20-mcrypt.ini

Then use the php5enmod tool

sudo php5enmod mcrypt

Finally reload apache

sudo service apache2 reload

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