php mcrypt on cent os 6.5

Question

I have a problem with my php/apache setup on Cent OS 6.5 with php 5.5 I'm using a vagrant box where I installed php-mcrypt and it seems to work on the command line

php -r 'echo extension_loaded('mcrypt'), PHP_EOL;'

returns 1 (true)

But when I try to use Laravel, it exits with "Mcrypt PHP extension required."

The check with extension_loaded('mcrypt') in start.php returns false

When I create a phpinfo() page, I can only see an mcrypt entry in the "Module authors", but not anywhere else on the page.

When I check my /etc/php.d/ folder, I see that there is a 20-mcrypt.ini file with a reference to mcrypt.so, but this init file is not available in the "Additional .ini files parsed" on the phpinfo() page.

How can I solve this?

EDIT: it seems that the commandline is using a different php version (5.5.20) compared to the apache server (5.5.16)

I had to update this php version to make it possible to install mcrypt, I used these commands:

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

yum -y update php55u
yum -y install php55u-mcrypt

This executed without errors, but maybe this was not enough?

Are you using PHP as apache module? If yes, make sure you have reloaded Apache after installing the mcrypt module. — etagenklo, Jan 22 '15 at 10:29
yes, I executed "service httpd restart" after installing the mcrypt module — Quentin, Jan 22 '15 at 10:35

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 22 '15 at 12:15

Okay, I found the issue, it was indeed a service that wasn't restarted (as etagenklo said). I restarted the httpd service, but this was not the one that had to be restarted (service php-fpm). It was a vagrant box without documentation so I didn't know that I had to restart this service too

php mcrypt on cent os 6.5

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