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I am trying to use the migrate function in Laravel 4 on OSX. However, I am getting the following error:
Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension.
As far as I understand, it's already enabled (see the image below).
What is wrong, and how can I fix it?
Do you have MAMP installed?
Use which php in the terminal to see which version of PHP you are using.
If it's not the PHP version from MAMP, you should edit or add .bash_profile in the user's home directory, that is : cd ~
In .bash_profile, add following line:
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin:$PATH
Edited: First you should use command cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php to check which PHP version from MAMP you are using and then replace with the PHP version above.
Then restart the terminal to see which PHP you are using now.
And it should be working now.
The web enabled extensions and command line enabled extensions can differ. Run php -m in your terminal and check to see if mcrypt is listed. If it's not then check where the command line is loading your php.ini file from by running php --ini from your terminal.
In this php.ini file you can enable the extension.
OSX
I have heard of people on OSX running in to problems due to the terminal pointing to the native PHP shipped with OSX. You should instead update your bash profile to include the actual path to your PHP. Something like this (I don't actually use OSX so this might not be 100%):
export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH
Ubuntu
On earlier versions of Ubuntu (prior to 14.04) when you run sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt it doesn't actually install the extension into the mods-available. You'll need to symlink it.
sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available/mcrypt.ini
On all Ubuntu versions you'll need to enable the mod once it's installed. You can do that with php5enmod.
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
sudo service apache2 restart
NOTES
PHP 7.1 deprecated mcrypt and 7.2 has removed the mcrypt extension entirely
Laravel 5.1 and later removed the need for mcrypt
To those that uses XAMPP 1.7.3 and Mac
Go to Terminal
Enter which php
If it says /usr/bin/php, then proceed to 3.
Enter sudo nano ~/.bash_profile (or sudo vim ~/.bash_profile if you know how to use it)
Then paste this export PATH="/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin:$PATH"
Ctrl+O then enter to save, then Ctrl+X to exit.
Type cd ~
type . .bash_profile
restart terminal.
Enter which php. If you did it right, it should be the same as the path in #4.
The reason for the mcrypt error is because your Mac uses its native php, you need to change it to the one xampp has.
P.S.
I'd recommend using MAMP for Laravel 4 for Mac users, this issue will get resolved along with the php file info error without a sweat, and the php version of xampp is so outdated.
For non MAMP or XAMPP users on OSX (with homebrew installed):
brew install homebrew/php/php56-mcrypt
Cheers!
Using Ubuntu, just
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
did the trick for me. You don't need to restart Apache since you need to use PHP just from the CLI.
In Ubuntu (PHP-FPM,Nginx)
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
After installing php5-mcrypt
you have to make a symlink to ini files in mods-available:
sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available/mcrypt.ini
enable:
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
restart php5-fpm:
sudo service php5-fpm restart
More detail
Getting Laravel working on Apache
PHP version : PHP 5.5.9
Ubuntu version : 14.04
i had a working laravel project on windows. when i copied it to ubuntu server , i started getting the mcrypt error. this after a lot of hours of trial and error
getting artisan command working
(if you are having mcrypt error while using artisan command line tool)
i did a lot of trial and error so each time i run the php5enmod command before, i had error messages. but on fresh install there was no error messages. after this step i got artisan command working
sudo rm /etc/php5/mods-available/mcrypt.ini
sudo apt-get purge php5-mcrypt
sudo apt-get install mcrypt
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
fixing the browser error
(if you are having mcrypt error in browser when accessing local laravel index page)
sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
add the following line under the dynamically compiled extensions section of php ini
extension=mcrypt.so
restart the apache server , purge the laravel cache and everything working
For php-fpm installations on Ubuntu 14.04, the following worked for me :
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
This will create mcrypt.ini file inside /etc/php5/mods-available/
Then
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
will create a symlink in: /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/
Just restart php-fpm services
sudo service php5-fpm restart
For ubuntu try these steps if others are not working :
cd ~
sudo apt-get remove php5-mcrypt
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
sudo service apache2 restart
Hope that will help. Thanks !
Or, use:
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
not sure if this will work on standard PHP installs - I installed php 5.5.7 using the package from :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
sudo apt-get update
This solved it for me on my Linux Mint local enviroment https://askubuntu.com/questions/350942/cannot-get-mcrypt-for-php5
I needed to make a symlink to my /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini file in the following folders /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/mcrypt.ini and /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/mcrypt.ini
My OS is Yosemite.
I resolve this issue, by finding configuration paths:
php --ini
Example output:
Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /usr/local/etc/php/5.5
Loaded Configuration File: /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/php.ini
Scan for additional .ini files in: /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/conf.d
Additional .ini files parsed: (none)
Next steps:
Rename or Delete php55 ini file
Create symlink
Restart Apache server
Commands:
mv /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/php.ini /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/php.ini.default
ln -s /etc/php.ini /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/php.ini
sudo apachectl restart
Then you can check your php modules via:
php -m
Just for yumers,
yum install php-mcrypt
service httpd restart
chown -R apache:apache apppath
Maybe you need install remi repo
You need an all in one environment. You may use MAMP or XAMPP or any other tools. After installing one of these tools you will need to edit(create) your .bash_profile(Assuming that you use bash).
Or even simple and more professional you can use Laravel Homestead.
Here is a link to official documentation: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/homestead
Also Jeffrey has a free tutorial about it:
https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-5-fundamentals/episodes/2
I advice you to go with homestead because you will preinstall all of the following tools.
Ubuntu 14.04
PHP 5.6
HHVM
Nginx
MySQL
Postgres
Node (With Bower, Grunt, and Gulp)
Redis
Memcached
Beanstalkd
Laravel Envoy
Fabric + HipChat Extension
For those who still come here today:
Laravel does not need mcrypt extension anymore. mcrypt is obsolete, the last update to libmcrypt was in 2007. Laravel 4.2 is obsolete too and has no more support. The best (=secure) solution is to update to Laravel 9.x+ (Laravel 8.x is still okay. But if you are upgrading, then upgrade to the latest version).
Mcrypt was removed from Laravel in June 2015: https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/9041
Expanding on #JetLaggy:
After trying again and again to modify .bash_profile with the MAMP directory, I changed the file permissions for the MAMP php directory and was able to get 'which php' to show the proper directory. Trouble was that other functions didn't work, such as 'php -v'.
So I updated MAMP. http://documentation.mamp.info/en/mamp/installation/updating-mamp
This did the trick for my particular setup. I had to adjust my PATH to reflect the updated version of PHP, but once I did, everything worked!
On OS X
Using MAMP
Enter the command which php in the terminal to see which version of PHP you are using. If it's not the PHP version from MAMP, the $PATH variable used by Bash will need to be updated.
First, you should use command "cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php" to check which php version from MAMP and take note of the version (eg, php5.6.7).
Once you know the version, you should edit the ~/.bash_profile file (that is, the .bash_profile that is in your home directory) and add an export line:
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.7/bin:$PATH
Make sure that you replace php5.6.7 with the version of PHP that you have selected in MAMP.
Once the file has been saved, make sure that you close close your Terminal and open it again. Once that has been done, you will be using the PHP that ships with MAMP.
One way to easily find what the line should be that you need to put inside your .bash_profile is to run the following command inside your terminal:
echo export PATH=`cat /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf \
| grep php | grep -i LoadModule | head -n1 \
| sed -e 's/^[^\/]*\/\(.*\)\/mod.*/\/\1/'`/bin:\$PATH
Copying and pasting those three lines into your terminal will correctly output the PHP version that has been selected inside the MAMP control panel.
Using Homebrew/MacPorts
Make sure that your path contains /usr/local/bin/ (Homebrew) or /opt/local/bin (MacPorts) if you are using PHP that comes with either of these two package managers.
Checking the PHP path with MacPorts
You can find the exact location of PHP using MacPorts with the following command:
port contents php70 | grep bin/php
Note that you should replace php70 with the version of PHP that you have installed.
Check the PHP path with Homebrew-php
Homebrew-php (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-php) is a tap that has various different versions of PHP.
You can find the exact location of PHP using Homebrew with the following command:
brew --prefix homebrew/php/php56
Note that you should replace php56 with the version of PHP that you have installed.
in Ubuntu 14.04
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
Ubuntu 16.04
sudo apt-get install php-mcrypt
sudo phpenmod mcrypt
Ubuntu 18.04
sudo apt install php7.0-mcrypt
sudo phpenmod mcrypt
or
sudo apt install php7.2-mcrypt
sudo phpenmod mcrypt
If you are using Z Shell, just do the following:
Open terminal
sudo nano ~/.zshrc
Paste this; export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.10/bin:$PATH
Save
Run source ~/.zshrc
Run which php - you should get the MAMP 5.6.10 path
5.6.10 is the version of PHP you set in your MAMP.
OSX with brew
$ brew install mcrypt php70-mcrypt
I am running PHP 7.0.x, so change "php70" to your version, if you are using a different version.
As stated in other answers, you can see your php version with $ php -v.
sudo php install mcrypt
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
I am trying to use the migrate function in Laravel 4 on OSX. However, I am getting the following error:
Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension.
As far as I understand, it's already enabled (see the image below).
What is wrong, and how can I fix it?
Do you have MAMP installed?
Use which php in the terminal to see which version of PHP you are using.
If it's not the PHP version from MAMP, you should edit or add .bash_profile in the user's home directory, that is : cd ~
In .bash_profile, add following line:
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/bin:$PATH
Edited: First you should use command cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php to check which PHP version from MAMP you are using and then replace with the PHP version above.
Then restart the terminal to see which PHP you are using now.
And it should be working now.
The web enabled extensions and command line enabled extensions can differ. Run php -m in your terminal and check to see if mcrypt is listed. If it's not then check where the command line is loading your php.ini file from by running php --ini from your terminal.
In this php.ini file you can enable the extension.
OSX
I have heard of people on OSX running in to problems due to the terminal pointing to the native PHP shipped with OSX. You should instead update your bash profile to include the actual path to your PHP. Something like this (I don't actually use OSX so this might not be 100%):
export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH
Ubuntu
On earlier versions of Ubuntu (prior to 14.04) when you run sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt it doesn't actually install the extension into the mods-available. You'll need to symlink it.
sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available/mcrypt.ini
On all Ubuntu versions you'll need to enable the mod once it's installed. You can do that with php5enmod.
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
sudo service apache2 restart
NOTES
PHP 7.1 deprecated mcrypt and 7.2 has removed the mcrypt extension entirely
Laravel 5.1 and later removed the need for mcrypt
To those that uses XAMPP 1.7.3 and Mac
Go to Terminal
Enter which php
If it says /usr/bin/php, then proceed to 3.
Enter sudo nano ~/.bash_profile (or sudo vim ~/.bash_profile if you know how to use it)
Then paste this export PATH="/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin:$PATH"
Ctrl+O then enter to save, then Ctrl+X to exit.
Type cd ~
type . .bash_profile
restart terminal.
Enter which php. If you did it right, it should be the same as the path in #4.
The reason for the mcrypt error is because your Mac uses its native php, you need to change it to the one xampp has.
P.S.
I'd recommend using MAMP for Laravel 4 for Mac users, this issue will get resolved along with the php file info error without a sweat, and the php version of xampp is so outdated.
For non MAMP or XAMPP users on OSX (with homebrew installed):
brew install homebrew/php/php56-mcrypt
Cheers!
Using Ubuntu, just
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
did the trick for me. You don't need to restart Apache since you need to use PHP just from the CLI.
In Ubuntu (PHP-FPM,Nginx)
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
After installing php5-mcrypt
you have to make a symlink to ini files in mods-available:
sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available/mcrypt.ini
enable:
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
restart php5-fpm:
sudo service php5-fpm restart
More detail
Getting Laravel working on Apache
PHP version : PHP 5.5.9
Ubuntu version : 14.04
i had a working laravel project on windows. when i copied it to ubuntu server , i started getting the mcrypt error. this after a lot of hours of trial and error
getting artisan command working
(if you are having mcrypt error while using artisan command line tool)
i did a lot of trial and error so each time i run the php5enmod command before, i had error messages. but on fresh install there was no error messages. after this step i got artisan command working
sudo rm /etc/php5/mods-available/mcrypt.ini
sudo apt-get purge php5-mcrypt
sudo apt-get install mcrypt
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
fixing the browser error
(if you are having mcrypt error in browser when accessing local laravel index page)
sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
add the following line under the dynamically compiled extensions section of php ini
extension=mcrypt.so
restart the apache server , purge the laravel cache and everything working
For php-fpm installations on Ubuntu 14.04, the following worked for me :
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
This will create mcrypt.ini file inside /etc/php5/mods-available/
Then
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
will create a symlink in: /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/
Just restart php-fpm services
sudo service php5-fpm restart
For ubuntu try these steps if others are not working :
cd ~
sudo apt-get remove php5-mcrypt
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
sudo service apache2 restart
Hope that will help. Thanks !
Or, use:
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
not sure if this will work on standard PHP installs - I installed php 5.5.7 using the package from :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
sudo apt-get update
This solved it for me on my Linux Mint local enviroment https://askubuntu.com/questions/350942/cannot-get-mcrypt-for-php5
I needed to make a symlink to my /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini file in the following folders /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/mcrypt.ini and /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/mcrypt.ini
My OS is Yosemite.
I resolve this issue, by finding configuration paths:
php --ini
Example output:
Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /usr/local/etc/php/5.5
Loaded Configuration File: /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/php.ini
Scan for additional .ini files in: /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/conf.d
Additional .ini files parsed: (none)
Next steps:
Rename or Delete php55 ini file
Create symlink
Restart Apache server
Commands:
mv /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/php.ini /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/php.ini.default
ln -s /etc/php.ini /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/php.ini
sudo apachectl restart
Then you can check your php modules via:
php -m
Just for yumers,
yum install php-mcrypt
service httpd restart
chown -R apache:apache apppath
Maybe you need install remi repo
You need an all in one environment. You may use MAMP or XAMPP or any other tools. After installing one of these tools you will need to edit(create) your .bash_profile(Assuming that you use bash).
Or even simple and more professional you can use Laravel Homestead.
Here is a link to official documentation: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/homestead
Also Jeffrey has a free tutorial about it:
https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-5-fundamentals/episodes/2
I advice you to go with homestead because you will preinstall all of the following tools.
Ubuntu 14.04
PHP 5.6
HHVM
Nginx
MySQL
Postgres
Node (With Bower, Grunt, and Gulp)
Redis
Memcached
Beanstalkd
Laravel Envoy
Fabric + HipChat Extension
For those who still come here today:
Laravel does not need mcrypt extension anymore. mcrypt is obsolete, the last update to libmcrypt was in 2007. Laravel 4.2 is obsolete too and has no more support. The best (=secure) solution is to update to Laravel 9.x+ (Laravel 8.x is still okay. But if you are upgrading, then upgrade to the latest version).
Mcrypt was removed from Laravel in June 2015: https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/9041
Expanding on #JetLaggy:
After trying again and again to modify .bash_profile with the MAMP directory, I changed the file permissions for the MAMP php directory and was able to get 'which php' to show the proper directory. Trouble was that other functions didn't work, such as 'php -v'.
So I updated MAMP. http://documentation.mamp.info/en/mamp/installation/updating-mamp
This did the trick for my particular setup. I had to adjust my PATH to reflect the updated version of PHP, but once I did, everything worked!
On OS X
Using MAMP
Enter the command which php in the terminal to see which version of PHP you are using. If it's not the PHP version from MAMP, the $PATH variable used by Bash will need to be updated.
First, you should use command "cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php" to check which php version from MAMP and take note of the version (eg, php5.6.7).
Once you know the version, you should edit the ~/.bash_profile file (that is, the .bash_profile that is in your home directory) and add an export line:
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.7/bin:$PATH
Make sure that you replace php5.6.7 with the version of PHP that you have selected in MAMP.
Once the file has been saved, make sure that you close close your Terminal and open it again. Once that has been done, you will be using the PHP that ships with MAMP.
One way to easily find what the line should be that you need to put inside your .bash_profile is to run the following command inside your terminal:
echo export PATH=`cat /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf \
| grep php | grep -i LoadModule | head -n1 \
| sed -e 's/^[^\/]*\/\(.*\)\/mod.*/\/\1/'`/bin:\$PATH
Copying and pasting those three lines into your terminal will correctly output the PHP version that has been selected inside the MAMP control panel.
Using Homebrew/MacPorts
Make sure that your path contains /usr/local/bin/ (Homebrew) or /opt/local/bin (MacPorts) if you are using PHP that comes with either of these two package managers.
Checking the PHP path with MacPorts
You can find the exact location of PHP using MacPorts with the following command:
port contents php70 | grep bin/php
Note that you should replace php70 with the version of PHP that you have installed.
Check the PHP path with Homebrew-php
Homebrew-php (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-php) is a tap that has various different versions of PHP.
You can find the exact location of PHP using Homebrew with the following command:
brew --prefix homebrew/php/php56
Note that you should replace php56 with the version of PHP that you have installed.
in Ubuntu 14.04
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
Ubuntu 16.04
sudo apt-get install php-mcrypt
sudo phpenmod mcrypt
Ubuntu 18.04
sudo apt install php7.0-mcrypt
sudo phpenmod mcrypt
or
sudo apt install php7.2-mcrypt
sudo phpenmod mcrypt
If you are using Z Shell, just do the following:
Open terminal
sudo nano ~/.zshrc
Paste this; export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.10/bin:$PATH
Save
Run source ~/.zshrc
Run which php - you should get the MAMP 5.6.10 path
5.6.10 is the version of PHP you set in your MAMP.
OSX with brew
$ brew install mcrypt php70-mcrypt
I am running PHP 7.0.x, so change "php70" to your version, if you are using a different version.
As stated in other answers, you can see your php version with $ php -v.
sudo php install mcrypt
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
Apologies in advance for the potential n00b questions, I am trying to install the mcrypt extension for PHP on my OSX Mountain Lion machine.
The following steps in terminal is what I have done so far to achieve my PHP install
cd /path/to/downloaded/php-5.3.21/ext/mcrypt/
/usr/bin/phpize
./configure
cd /path/to/downloaded/php-5.3.21
./configure --with-config-file-path=/private/etc/php.ini --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs
make
sudo make install
Which seems to work well and installs PHP 5.3.21 fine. I have then done
sudo nano /private/etc/php.ini
And included
extension=mcrypt.so
Along with an Apache restart, phpinfo() doesn't show that the mcrypt extension is loaded.
I then tried to specify the extension_dir inside php.ini, again with no luck.
I have done
locate mcrypt.so
/opt/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/mcrypt.so
/usr/local/Cellar/php53-mcrypt/5.3.18/mcrypt.so
And tried both directories as the extension_dir, with no luck.
I have also tried the following, after much Googling
./configure --with-config-file-path=/private/etc/php.ini --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-mcrypt
Which seems to work OK, but then upon "make", it returns
ext/mcrypt/mcrypt.o: No such file or directory
ext/mcrypt/mcrypt_filter.o: No such file or directory
Again, no success.
What am I doing wrong? It seems like the physical compile of mcrypt.so is not happening, or is compiling incorrectly as I would suspect there to be another mcrypt.so found under locate?
Anyone please help? I've gone through pages upon pages of Google searches with no luck!
I tend to use Homebrew on Mac. It will install and configure all the stuff for you.
Link
Then you should be able to install it with brew install mcrypt php53-mcrypt and it'll Just Work (tm).
You can replace the 53 with whatever version of PHP you're using, such as php56-mcrypt or php70-mcrypt. If you're not sure, use brew search php.
Do also remember that if you are using the built in Mac PHP it's installed into /usr/bin you can see which php you are using with which php at the terminal and it'll return the path.
I just went through this on Mountain Lion. Homebrew blocked on libiconv which it thought was missing but was actually up to date. After an hour of trying to get it to recognize libiconv, I gave up and installed it the old fashion way, which took all of five minutes...
(download your php version)
$ wget http://www.php.net/get/php-5.3.21.tar.gz/from/a/mirror
$ tar -xvzf php-5.3.21.tar.gz
$ cd php-5.3.21/ext/mcrypt
$ phpize
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make test
$ sudo make install
mcrypt.so is now in your PHP ext dir (/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/ in my case), now you need to add to php.ini as a module
$ vi /etc/php.ini
$ (insert) extension=mcrypt.so
$ sudo apachectl restart
Done - no brew necessary. HTH someone.
Installing php-mcrypt without the use of port or brew
Note: these instructions are long because they intend to be thorough. The process is actually fairly straight-forward. If you're an
optimist, you can skip down to the building the mcrypt extension
section, but you may very well see the errors I did, telling me to
install autoconf and libmcrypt first.
I have just gone through this on a fresh install of OSX 10.9. The solution which worked for me was very close to that of ckm - I am including their steps as well as my own in full, for completeness. My main goal (other than "having mcrypt") was to perform the installation in a way which left the least impact on the system as a whole. That means doing things manually (no port, no brew)
To do things manually, you will first need a couple of dependencies: one for building PHP modules, and another for mcrypt specifically. These are autoconf and libmcrypt, either of which you might have already, but neither of which you will have on a fresh install of OSX 10.9.
autoconf
Autoconf (for lack of a better description) is used to tell not-quite-disparate, but still very different, systems how to compile things. It allows you to use the same set of basic commands to build modules on Linux as you would on OSX, for example, despite their different file-system hierarchies, etc. I used the method described by Ares on StackOverflow, which I will reproduce here for completeness. This one is very straight-forward:
$ mkdir -p ~/mcrypt/dependencies/autoconf
$ cd ~/mcrypt/dependencies/autoconf
$ curl -OL http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf/autoconf-latest.tar.gz
$ tar xzf autoconf-latest.tar.gz
$ cd autoconf-*/
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ sudo make install
Next, verify the installation by running:
$ which autoconf
which should return /usr/local/bin/autoconf
libmcrypt
Next, you will need libmcrypt, used to provide the guts of the mcrypt extension (the extension itself being a provision of a PHP interface into this library). The method I used was based on the one described here, but I have attempted to simplify things as best I can:
First, download the libmcrypt source, available from SourceForge, and available as of the time of this writing, specifically, at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mcrypt/files/Libmcrypt/2.5.8/libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.bz2/download
You'll need to jump through the standard SourceForge hoops to get at the real download link, but once you have it, you can pass it in to something like this:
$ mkdir -p ~/mcrypt/dependencies/libmcrypt
$ cd ~/mcrypt/dependencies/libmcrypt
$ curl -L -o libmcrypt.tar.bz2 '<SourceForge direct link URL>'
$ tar xjf libmcrypt.tar.bz2
$ cd libmcrypt-*/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
The only way I know of to verify that this has worked is via the ./configure step for the mcrypt extension itself (below)
building the mcrypt extension
This is our actual goal. Hopefully the brief stint into dependency hell is over now.
First, we're going to need to get the source code for the mcrypt extension. This is most-readily available buried within the source code for all of PHP. So: determine what version of the PHP source code you need.
$ php --version # to get your PHP version
now, if you're lucky, your current version will be available for download from the main mirrors. If it is, you can type something like:
$ mkdir -p ~/mcrypt/php
$ cd ~/mcrypt/php
$ curl -L -o php-5.4.17.tar.bz2 http://www.php.net/get/php-5.4.17.tar.bz2/from/a/mirror
Unfortunately, my current version (5.4.17, in this case) was not available, so I needed to use the alternative/historical links at http://downloads.php.net/stas/ (also an official PHP download site). For these, you can use something like:
$ mkdir -p ~/mcrypt/php
$ cd ~/mcrypt/php
$ curl -LO http://downloads.php.net/stas/php-5.4.17.tar.bz2
Again, based on your current version.
Once you have it, (and all the dependencies, from above), you can get to the main process of actually building/installing the module.
$ cd ~/mcrypt/php
$ tar xjf php-*.tar.bz2
$ cd php-*/ext/mcrypt
$ phpize
$ ./configure # this is the step which fails without the above dependencies
$ make
$ make test
$ sudo make install
In theory, mcrypt.so is now in your PHP extension directory. Next, we need to tell PHP about it.
configuring the mcrypt extension
Your php.ini file needs to be told to load mcrypt. By default in OSX 10.9, it actually has mcrypt-specific configuration information, but it doesn't actually activate mcrypt unless you tell it to.
The php.ini file does not, by default, exist. Instead, the file /private/etc/php.ini.default lists the default configuration, and can be used as a good template for creating the "true" php.ini, if it does not already exist.
To determine whether php.ini already exists, run:
$ ls /private/etc/php.ini
If there is a result, it already exists, and you should skip the next command.
To create the php.ini file, run:
$ sudo cp /private/etc/php.ini.default /private/etc/php.ini
Next, you need to add the line:
extension=mcrypt.so
Somewhere in the file. I would recommend searching the file for ;extension=, and adding it immediately prior to the first occurrence.
Once this is done, the installation and configuration is complete. You can verify that this has worked by running:
php -m | grep mcrypt
Which should output "mcrypt", and nothing else.
If your use of PHP relies on Apache's httpd, you will need to restart it before you will notice the changes on the web. You can do so via:
$ sudo apachectl restart
And you're done.
Why You're Getting This Error
PHP complains if one of the files like mcrypt.so is included using the syntax extension="mcrypt.so" but the file is not in the extension_dir path ( use <?php phpinfo(); ?> or php -i to check that).
It will also tell you which php.ini config file is being loaded so you will know where the settings are coming from. Most likely it will be something like /usr/local/etc/php/5.4/php.ini if you are using the homebrew version.
Take note of the part under it that says something like "Scan this dir for additional .ini files" because what that means is it gives you a place to put your own file, like tweaks.ini that is loaded after the main configuration file so that you can make changes and keep up with them easily. Also remember that all the files in this directory get loaded in alphabetical order, so if you have one called adjustments.ini that contains mcrypt directives, and there is a mcrypt.ini, most likely your settings will be overridden.
One alternative to specifying extension="mcrypt.so" is to specify the full path to the mcrypt.so file. The other option is to edit the extension_dir setting.
What worked for me
On Mavericks I didn't have to do either. I did a fresh install of homebrew and then added the josegonzalez tap using:
brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
(My other laptop was running Mountain Lion and was also using homebrew in this setup.)
After you've tapped that awesome repo you can install php and mcrypt using something like:
brew install php54 php54-mcrypt
What if this doesn't work (and why should I use homebrew anyway?)
I would highly advise trying this route before downloading and building it from source. It's not hard to build from source - but I don't want to have to maintain that. It's one of the reasons to use homebrew in the first place - it's a package manager (with a HUGE community).
There is a lot of development on the homebrew project and - if you have problems I'd suggest checking out their issues page
So yes you can build it from source and that might seem like a good option right now if you just want mcrypt to work but you may hate yourself for doing this later...
If you don't want to be using php54 there is also the php53 branch. They have some instructions at the repo about how to use both of them / switch between them.
If you're new to homebrew you should know that you check out what else is available using brew search php54, which gives something like:
php54 php54-lzf php54-snappy
php54-amqp php54-mailparse php54-solr
php54-apc php54-mcrypt php54-ssh2
php54-apcu php54-memcache php54-stats
php54-boxwood php54-memcached php54-svm
php54-chdb php54-midgard2 php54-tidy
php54-couchbase php54-mongo php54-timezonedb
php54-dbase php54-msgpack php54-tokyotyrant
php54-ev php54-mysqlnd_ms php54-twig
php54-gearman php54-oauth php54-uploadprogress
php54-geoip php54-opcache php54-uuid
php54-gmagick php54-parsekit php54-varnish
php54-graphdat php54-pcntl php54-wbxml
php54-http php54-pdflib php54-xcache
php54-igbinary php54-phalcon php54-xdebug
php54-imagick php54-proctitle php54-xhgui
php54-inclued php54-pspell php54-xhp
php54-intl php54-pthreads php54-xhprof
php54-ioncubeloader php54-raphf php54-xmldiff
php54-jsmin php54-redis php54-yac
php54-judy php54-riak php54-yaf
php54-leveldb php54-runkit php54-yaml
php54-libevent php54-scrypt php54-yaz
php54-libvirt
TLDR
You should use homebrew to install mcrypt if at all possible
If you're getting errors it's probably because your configuration file(s) are messed up. Check the extension_dir path and figure out where the mcrypt.so file is and see if there is a discrepancy (or specify the full path)
For me, on Yosemite
$ brew install mcrypt php56-mcrypt
restart computer
did the trick.
Solution with brew worked only after the following:
in your php.ini
nano /private/etc/php.ini
add this line:
extension="/usr/local/Cellar/php53-mcrypt/5.3.26/mcrypt.so"
Warning! Set the correct PHP version.
I would recommend installing everything via homebrew if you have the option. I went in circles for a while, but installing php 5.x via brew and then the neccessary modules worked a treat. I was working with php 5.4 and used this to get going initially:
https://github.com/josegonzalez/homebrew-php
and then installed the additional modules with:
brew install php54-redis
brew install php54-xdebug
brew install php54-mcrypt
...
Another possibility for those who want to keep OS X as clean as possible, is to use vagrant [1] to define a php development environment. Vagrant can use VirtualBox [2] in headless mode (~3% of CPU on my 13-inch, Mid 2009 MacBook Pro) to run a virtual machine with the webserver and php and all.
To easily create the vagrant environment you can use this great tool https://puphpet.com/
http://www.vagrantup.com/
https://www.virtualbox.org/
I'd create a shell script to install mcrypt module for PHP 5.3 without homebrew.
The scripts install php autoconf if needed and compile module for your php version.
The link is here: https://gist.github.com/lucasgameiro/8730619
Thanks
Nothing worked and finally got it working using resource #Here and Here; Just remember for OSX Mavericks (10.9) should use PHP 5.4.17 or Stable PHP 5.4.22 source to compile mcrypt. Php Source 5.4.22 here
Brew base solution worked for me
Install these packages
$brew install brew install mcrypt php54-mcrypt
Copy default php.ini.default to php.ini
$sudo cp /private/etc/php.ini.default /private/etc/php.ini
Add this line to php.ini file extension section - please verify extension path with install location in your machine
extension="/usr/local/Cellar/php54-mcrypt/5.3.26/mcrypt.so"
Restart your apache server
$apache restart
This is what I did:
$ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/mcrypt/files/Libmcrypt/2.5.8/libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz/download
$ tar xzvf libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ brew install autoconf
$ wget file:///Users/rmatikolai/Downloads/php-5.4.24.tar.bz2
$ tar xjvf php-5.4.24.tar.bz2
$ cd php-5.4.24/ext/mcrypt
$ phpize
$ ./configure # this is the step which fails without the above dependencies
$ make
$ make test
$ sudo make install
$ sudo cp /private/etc/php.ini.default /private/etc/php.ini
$ sudo vi /private/etc/php.ini
Next, you need to add the line:
extension=mcrypt.so
$ sudo apachectl restart
mycrypt.o and mcrypt_filter.o are in the ext/.libs of your php downloaded directory. Just copy the files to ext/mcrypt, then run make && make install again.
With recent changes in brew (deprecation of homebrew/php) you now install php with mcrypt with the following.
brew install php#5.6 -with-mcrypt=mcrypt
You may have to uninstall previous installs of php
So after running brew install mcrypt php, I had to install php-mcrypt via pecl:
pecl install mcrypt-1.0.1
At the time of writing, mcrypt does not have a stable pecl release, 1.0.1 being the current release for php 7.2 and 7.3, and brew install php will install php 7.2.
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
ln -s /etc/php5/mods-available/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/mcrypt.ini
service php5-fpm restart
service nginx restart
I have been trying to enable mcrypt for two days in OS X. I read lots of document but I could not accomplish. Maybe it is because I am new in OS X environment.
The brief summary what I have done so far is;
I installed Xcode and installed Command Line Tools.
Downloaded and extracted libmcrypt-2.5.8 and php-5.3.15.
cd libmcrypt-2.5.8
./configure && make && sudo make install
The output of this is
Libraries have been installed in:
/usr/local/lib
and some other logs like
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
The next step is;
cd php-5.3.15/ext/mcrypt
./configure && make && sudo make install
The output of this is
Installing shared extensions:
/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/
According to documents that I read, this means the installation is successful. After all these I opened /etc/php.ini and wrote extension=mcrypt.so. I restarted apache with sudo apachectl restart. But nothing happened. Mcrypt did not appear in php -m.
I also tried to install mcrypt with sudo port install php-mcrypt +universal but also this did not worked.
I saw another topic which is related to this problem and there was an answer which says that changing extension=mcrypt.so with full path of mcrypt.so. I tried and that is also not worked for me.
I found this walkthrough useful, http://www.coolestguyplanettech.com/how-to-install-mcrypt-for-php-on-mac-osx-lion-10-7-development-server/
Make sure 'extension_dir' property is set in your php.ini or if its already there check that its not commented.
$im = new imagick($file);
This line of code will work fine when ran from my browser, but when I try to run it from command line (CLI) then I get the following error...
Class 'imagick' not found
Any ideas why it won't work from CLI?
Found a solution:
sudo aptitude install make php5-dev php-pear
sudo aptitude remove php5-imagick
sudo aptitude install libmagick9-dev
sudo pecl install imagick
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
http://kvz.io/blog/2008/02/27/class-imagick-not-found/
The php cli executable is seperate(as in, a seperate binary file) from what generally gets run through a webserver. So, they can be totally different php versions, with different php.ini files and different extensions compiled in/enabled.
Run "php -i | grep include_path" and make sure that class file path is in there. If not, you can either add it in your script or your environment (bash profile).