Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension

Question

I am trying to use the migrate function in Laravel 4 on OSX. However, I am getting the following error:

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Answer 1

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

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