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UPDATE: Using this article at http://www.hagrin.com/315/installing-mcrypt-a-godaddy-linux-virtual-dedicated-server-vds I was able to install mcrypt on a Godaddy Virtual Dedicated Server in just a few steps:

1. SSH into your VDS with your favorite SSH client or the SSH Java applet offered by GoDaddy.
2. Login with your credentials.
3. Su to the root user.
4. Type “yum install libmcrypt”. Say yes to the prompts.
5. Type “yum install php-mcrypt”. Say yes to the prompts.
6. Restart the server using “/usr/sbin/apachectl restart”.

We recently deployed a web site using GoDaddy’s virtual dedicated server. Everything about the default PHP installation was fine, except that libmcrypt was not available. When I asked the godaddy support staff “How do we enable libmcrypt for PHP?” their response was far from helpful:

Thank you for contacting Server Support. Unfortunately 3rd party installations and configurations are not supported.

Rather than argue with the support team about what constitutes a 3rd party installation, I decided to google around and see if I could do it myself. Hours later, I succeeded. Here are the steps for installing libmcrypt:

1. su root
2. yum install gcc-c++
3. yum install lex
4. yum install libxml2
5. yum install libxml2-devel
6. yum install flex
7. wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mcrypt/libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz?modtime=1171868460&big_mirror=0
8. tar -xzvf libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz
9. cd libmcrypt-2.5.8
10. ./configure
11. make
12. make install
13. wget http://museum.php.net/php5/php-5.1.6.tar.gz
14. tar -xzvf php-5.1.6.tar.gz
15. cd php-5.1.6
16. ./configure –with-mcrypt=shared,/usr/local/lib
17. make (after running ‘make’, DO NOT RUN ‘make install’)
18. cp modules/mcrypt.so /usr/lib/php/modules/
19. Add a file /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini
    ; Enable mcrypt extension module
    extension=mcrypt.so
20. /usr/sbin/apachectl restart

That’s it! To confirm a successful install, just run phpinfo() and look for the mcrypt section