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Shackrock
Asked: 2011-08-21 05:38:23 +0800 CST

How to instal the PHP MCrypt + library (libmcrypt) on CentOS 5 server

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I'm trying to install mCrypt for PHP on my server, and before that I've found that I need to install libmcrypt as well...

I cannot find any instructions via google that actually work for this, unfortunately.

I originally just tried yum install php-mcrypt but I get No package php-mcrypt available. - so I assume it's because I didn't install libmcrypt yet?

Thanks!

Repo Lists:

$ yum repolist
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.cogentco.com
 * epel: mirror.cogentco.com
 * extras: centos.aol.com
 * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net
 * updates: mirror.ash.fastserv.com
repo id      repo name                                           status
base         CentOS-5 - Base                                     enabled:  3,535
epel         Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - x86_64      enabled:  6,642
extras       CentOS-5 - Extras                                   enabled:    299
rpmforge     RHEL 5 - RPMforge.net - dag                         enabled: 10,695
updates      CentOS-5 - Updates                                  enabled:    765
repolist: 21,936

I've gotten somewhat far here.. library is installed successfully. mcrypt has some errors though on dependencies:

Running Transaction
  Installing     : php-common                                               1/5 
warning: /etc/php.ini created as /etc/php.ini.rpmnew
  Installing     : php-cli                                                  2/5 
  Installing     : httpd                                                    3/5 
Error unpacking rpm package httpd-2.2.3-45.el5.centos.1.x86_64
warning: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf created as /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.rpmnew
warning: /etc/httpd/conf/magic created as /etc/httpd/conf/magic.rpmnew
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/httpd/logs: cpio: rename
  Installing     : php                                                      4/5 
  Installing     : php-mcrypt                                               5/5 

Installed:
  php-mcrypt.x86_64 0:5.1.6-15.el5.centos.1                                     

Dependency Installed:
  php.x86_64 0:5.1.6-27.el5_5.3            php-cli.x86_64 0:5.1.6-27.el5_5.3    
  php-common.x86_64 0:5.1.6-27.el5_5.3    

Failed:
  httpd.x86_64 0:2.2.3-45.el5.centos.1                                          

Complete!

Update for MIKE

[root@server ~]# fuser -k 80/tcp
80/tcp:              17496 17502 17503 17504 17505 17590
[root@server ~]# service httpd restart
httpd not running, trying to start
[root@server ~]# service httpd status

Looking up localhost
Making HTTP connection to localhost
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
Can't Access `http://localhost/whm-server-status'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

lynx: Can't access startfile

Also, this is in the apache error logs: 

[Sat Aug 20 16:59:33 2011] [error] (13)Permission denied: Cannot open SSLSessionCache DBM file `/usr/local/apache/logs/ssl_scache' for writing (store)
centos5 php-mcrypt

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    seems to me your /etc/httpd/logs is no longer a symlink

    ls -lsd /etc/httpd/logs

    It should be pointed to

    /var/log/httpd

    EDIT

    seems from your comment it isn't a symlink anymore

    mv /etc/httpd/logs /etc/httpd/logs.bak
ln -s /var/log/httpd /etc/httpd/logs
service httpd restart

    then try to yum update

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  2. You are seriously messing up your "cPanel" server apache + php by installing these rpm packages. In cPanel, you need to use easyapache to compile apache & php to enable additional modules (everything is handy in the easyapache script and you just need to select the corresponding package). cPanel uses custom apache & php builds for sites and you need to do it in the cPanel way. I assume you removed the exclude list in yum.conf to achieve these installations. To recover your server,

    1. Uninstall the apache & php rpms you installed.
    2. Run eachyapache with necessary modules selected, to bring back apache alive.

    You can run the easyapache script from commandline (in a screen will be good)

    **/scripts/easyapache**

    Or can use the WHM to recompile your apache + php. Also make sure to put back the exclude list in yum.conf to prevent this from happening again.

    exclude=apache* bind-chroot courier* dovecot* exim* filesystem httpd* mod_ssl* mysql* nsd* perl* php* proftpd* pure-ftpd* ruby* spamassassin* squirrelmail*

    For EasyApache docs: http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/EasyApache3/

    -$

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  3. Install remi or Atomic repo and try again.

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