Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration

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When you try to access phpmyadmin with link http://localhost/phpmyadmin, if you get “Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration.” error message every browsing web page of phpmyadmin .

 

Solution : This message box will be removed after install php-mcrypt package.

We can install this package after using EPEL(Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository. For including this repository on our system using this command:

 

 


su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm'

 

After this we can install php-mcrypt package using this command:

su -c 'yum install php-mcrypt'