Error Upgrading Magento

Question

Preface: I'm very new to Magento.

I'm trying to upgrade Magento from 2.0.1 to 2.0.10 via ssh. I'm getting the following Problems:

Problem 1
    - Installation request for magento/product-community-edition 2.1.10 -> satisfiable by magento/product-community-edition[2.1.10].
    - magento/product-community-edition 2.1.10 requires ext-mcrypt * -> the requested PHP extension mcrypt is missing from your system.

I added extension=php_mcrypt.so to my php.ini but that didn't seem to fix anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Are you on Windows or Linux?

On Linux it should be extension=mcrypt.so

On Windows: extension=php_mcrypt.dll