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

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