mCrypt not present after Ubuntu upgrade to 13.10

Question

After I have upgraded my system from Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 several problems have occurred with apache, mysql and php configurations. I solved most of them but I can't seem to get mCrypt library working. Package is installed so i don't need to apt-get it. Server works and everything seems fine, but when I try to run `php artisan serve` with Laravel 4, I get a message that mCrypt is required. I did `php --ri mcrypt` and the output was `Extension 'mcrypt' not present.` I have tried putting `extension=mcrypt.so` to `/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini` but it didn't work. Any ideas? Output of `dpkg --get-selections | grep php5` ``` libapache2-mod-php5 install php5 install php5-cli install php5-common install php5-gd install php5-json install php5-mcrypt install php5-mysql install php5-readline install ```

Accepted Answer

I think I found the solution at launchpad.net.

```
sudo ln -s /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini /etc/php5/mods-available
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
sudo service apache2 restart
```

This worked for me.

mCrypt not present after Ubuntu upgrade to 13.10

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