Installing phpMyAdmin - mcrypt error

[Jip]

I have installed phpMyAdmin 3.1.1 on WinXP Pro (PHP 5.2.8, MySQL 5.1.30). When I browse to the login page, I see the following error message:

"Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration."

I have tweaked my php.ini file to load the mcrypt extension and my phpInfo() page is indicating that other extensions have successfully loaded (e.g., mySQL, LDAP). I have verified that there is a "php_mcrypt.dll" file in the extensions folder.

The only solution I found was dealing with libmcrypt.dll and putting it in my System32 folder. I did this and nothing has changed. Any recommendations?

[Jip]

Solution was just to change auth type from cookies to http:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'http';

[Kudose]

That's a hack, not a solution.

How do you have your environment setup? I assume by you dropping files into system32 your not using XAMPP ... are you?

[bradgrafelman]

Kudose wrote:

I assume by you dropping files into system32 your not using XAMPP

Or using a proper installation of PHP (since you should never move files outside of the PHP directory into a system directory).