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Cannot load mycrypt extension

Asked by Al_G

I just installed the MediaWki appliance. It seems to be running fine, but when I go to phpMyAdmin and login, I get an error message in a yellow box that says "Cannont load mycrypt extension. Please check your php confitguration." Is this normal? I didn't see anything about it looking around the documentation, but maybe I was going too fast...

Thanks--

Al

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Alon Swartz (alonswartz) said : 		#1

Thanks for reporting this, it seems to be a bug in the mediawiki 2009.02 release.
I'll look into what caused it, but in the meantime here is a simple fix:

echo "extension=mcrypt.so" >> /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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Al_G (al-gaspar-va) said : 		#2

OK. I echoed "extension=mycrypt.so" onto the end of /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and restarted apache. It didn't make any difference; so I did a reboot on the machine. I'm still getting the same error message.

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Best Alon Swartz (alonswartz) said : 		#3

It's "mcrypt", not "mycrypt".

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Al_G (al-gaspar-va) said : 		#4

Sorry. My bad. That did the trick. Thanks for your prompt help!

Cheers--

Al

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Al_G (al-gaspar-va) said : 		#5

Thanks Alon Swartz, that solved my question.

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Alon Swartz (alonswartz) said : 		#6

great :)