phpMyAdmin mbstring error

Question

Whenever I try to enter my phpMyAdmin, it gives me this error:

The mbstring extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration.

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Answer 1

In newer versions of PHP, "extension_dir" is not initially enabled.

Answer 2

Ubuntu 15.10

1) sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini

uncommited extension=php_mbstring.dll

2) sudo apt-get install php7.0-mbstring

3) restart apache2

Answer 3

I had this problem in the past with MAMP on a Windows machine.

Open MAMP start page and go to your current configuration of PHP (phpinfo). Check the Configuration File (php.ini) PATH.

Mine was set to C:\Windows, where of course I had no PHP.ini file.

Either change the php.ini path to C:\MAMP\conf\php5.6.8 (or your php version conf path) or just copy php.ini to c:\windows.

Answer 4

In Centos I have installed a php extension. I did this with:

yum install php-mbstring

Answer 5

after installing WAMP 3 with Apache 2.4.17 and php5.6.17 I tried to look at php.ini from wampserver (green icon in tray). It wasn't finding it. I copied php.ini from the php.5.6.15 directory to the apache2.4.17\bin\ directory and phpmyadmin worked fine without missing mbstring

Answer 6

In php's directory try change extension of configuration file (php.ini-development - default value of this file). I changed it to php.ini and phpmyadmin has worked.