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.