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November 15, 2013 16:58
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After installing Ubuntu 13.10 with PHP 5.5.3 I kept getting the "Laravel Requires the mcrypt PHP extension" when trying to run artisan commands. Running the following commands on my server fixed the problem.
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| # Make sure you have php5-mcrypt installed first. If not, run | |
| sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt | |
| # Add a symlink for mcrypt.ini in the PHP5 apache config directory | |
| sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/20-mcrypt.ini | |
| # Restart apache | |
| sudo service apache2 restart |
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