Whenever I try to access phpMyAdmin, I receive the following error:
"The mbstring extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration."
I am running a LEMP stack on a CentOS 7 server. I have elected to use PHP 7 for this installation. I have not experienced this error on identical set-ups running earlier versions of PHP.
extension_loaded('mbstring')
returns false even though mbstring.ini (/etc/php.d/) contains:
; Enable mbstring extension module
extension=mbstring.so
I am 100% sure that the mbstring module is installed on my server.
I'm completely stumped so if anyone has any ideas whatsoever, please let me know. Thanks.
For those who have debian :
sudo apt-get install php7.0-mbstring
Otherwise in centos (tested in centos 6.6)
sudo yum install php70w-mbstring
and as @mpen said you can activate it
sudo phpenmod mbstring
A solution was reached with the following method:
I put extension=mbstring.so
inside php.ini even though that is no longer the method PHP uses by default to load modules.
From php.ini itself:
Note: packaged extension modules are now loaded via the .ini files found in the directory /etc/php.d; these are loaded by default.
It seemed to fix my problem. I would still be interested to hear if anyone else has a different take on this matter.
For PHP7 on centos
try this yum install php70-mbstring
I had this problem for a long time.
I found the correct way (for me) to correct it... and it's fairly simple :)
Juste add "universe" on the xenial-updates
# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
deb [arch=amd64] http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-backports main
deb [arch=amd64] http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main universe
deb [arch=amd64] http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-proposed main
deb [arch=amd64] http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main
deb [arch=amd64] http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main **universe**
run sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade before installing with sudo apt-get install php-mbstring.
I had the same problem today and found this way.