You can easily install the mcrypt extension to PHP5 on Mac OS X Server. Here’s how:
Mavericks Instructions
If you’re running Mac OS X Mavericks Server, see these articles about adding PHP extensions:
If you’ve previously installed this extension using instructions on this page, read this article to upgrade PHP extensions for Mavericks server.
Download and install MacPorts from http://macports.org.
The following steps are performed in the Terminal:
Force MacPorts to update:
sudo port -v selfupdate
Now, build mcrypt:
sudo port install php5-mcrypt
Copy the newly created shared object for mcrypt into Mac OS X’s default PHP5 extension directory:
sudo cp /opt/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/mcrypt.so /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/
Next, you need to edit php.ini to add the extensions. Find the phrase Dynamic Extensions, and add:
extension=mcrypt.so
And finally, restart Apache:
sudo apachectl restart
To confirm installation, create a new PHP document called phpinfo.php with the following contents:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Point your browser to the URL of that file. If all went well, you’ll see this block:
mcrypt installed in Mac OS X Server’s native PHP5
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Worked like a charm. What’s great about this technique is that you retain the core Apache for OS X and use MacPorts’ build scripts to compile a platform-specific mcrypt without having to do much.
If you ever want to undo anything, just remove the ports and the copied mcrypt.so and it’s like nothing ever happened.
Highly suggest this method unless you really feel like you need to rebuild PHP manually.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
This worked for me, and was waaaaay easier than some of the other solutions I’d found on the ‘net.
One issue I did encounter was this error when I tried to run “sudo port install php5-mcrypt”:
Error: Dependency ‘p5.12-locale-gettext’ not found.
A bit of Googling came up with a simple solution: re-run the selfupdate command:
sudo port selfupdate
This generates the following innocuous output:
—> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
MacPorts base version 2.0.3 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.0.3 downloaded.
—> Updating the ports tree
—> MacPorts base is already the latest version
The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run
port upgrade outdated
However, this also resolves the p5.12-locale-gettext problem, allowing the php5-mcrypt install to complete without errors.
Thanks again, Chris Brewer.
Beautiful. Been trying to install mcrypt with SL Server the whole day and had nothing but one issue after another trying to recompile. Nothing but errors, no matter where I turned. If only I’d found this earlier. Thanks for the post.
Thank you very much! I’ve been pulling my hair out for hours…