I've been trying to install mcrypt extension for php5 on Ubuntu 14.04 ARM server running nginx.
PROBLEM
In phpinfo() I can only see the authors of mcrypt but the module itself is missing. I can't use mcrypt functionalities anywhere on that server.
WHAT I TRIED
Running php5 -m shows that mcrypt is installed.
In /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini I have the following extension = /usr/lib/php5/20121212+lfs/mcrypt.so. This I read in google after I tried only with extension = mcrypt.so. Neither gave result.
In /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/20-mcrypt.ini I have this extension=/usr/lib/php5/20121212+lfs/mcrypt.so as well.
I restarted php5-fpm and nginx multiple times, I also tried php5enmod mcrypt which doesn't show any warnings or errors.
I created symlink between the .so and .ini file.
Any ideas?
Ok so it turns out that my only escape was to purge php5-fpm, reboot the server, then apt-get install php5-fpm, now everything is loaded correctly. I have no idea why this happens. If anyone has explaination I'll be happy to update my answer with it.