Follow Up On Installing CentOS 5.1 in VMware Server

I’d like to add a little something about the CentOS 5.0 Perfect Setup. After following carefully each instruction step-by-step, I noticed that at least two PHP extensions were missing: php-mcrypt and php-mbstring.

Php-mcrypt is used to encrypt data and could be required by some PHP scripts while php-mbstring (Multibyte String) provides multibyte specific string functions that help you deal with multibyte encodings in PHP. Both these extensions are used by phpMyAdmin even though it’s optional.

Installing both extensions is pretty easy if you have installed PHP from an RPM package:

# yum install php-mcrypt php-mbstring

I’m almost done installing ISPConfig on my virtual CentOS 5.1 web server so I’ll keep you updated on this soon.

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