Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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  quot cd  Applications MAMP bin php quot  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

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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

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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

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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

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in ubuntu 14 04 based on your php version   5 6 7 0 7 1 7 2 7 3     sudo apt-get install php version -mcrypt   sudo apt-get install php7 1-mcrypt  sudo phpenmod mcrypt

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Just for yumers   yum install php-mcrypt service httpd restart chown -R apache apache apppath   Maybe you need install remi repo

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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

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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

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For non MAMP or XAMPP users on OSX  with homebrew installed         brew install homebrew php php56-mcrypt  Cheers

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sudo php install mcrypt      sudo php5enmod mcrypt

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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

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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

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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  5 1  there is no LTS before Laravel 5 2    Mcrypt was removed from Laravel in June 2015  https   github com laravel framework pull 9041

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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

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