The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration

Question

I just followed the tutorial located at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu while fixing multiple other er

Answer 1

I just stuffed a symbolic link into the Apache portion of php configuration. Platform: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Details:

1. cd /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d
2. sudo ln -s ../../mods-available/mcrypt.ini 20-mcrypt.ini
3. ls -l to see if the new link is there
4. sudo apache2ctl restart

HTH.