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

For those using a LEMP stack (nginx & php5-fpm), this is the solution

apt-get install php5-mcrypt
php5enmod mcrypt
service php5-fpm restart
service nginx restart

(run each with sudo, naturally)