PhpMyAdmin error: JSON extension is missing

Today I found out that my phpMyAdmin installation over apache2 and Ubuntu 13.10 was broken. The error was straight forward: “JSON extension is missing”.

Okay, but how can it be gone?

I recently updated my Ubuntu installation from 13.04 to 13.10. Turns out that it somehow breaks the PHP JSON extension.

The fix is very simple, run


sudo apt-get install php5-json
sudo service apache2 restart

Problem sovled.

Comments

  1. Well, for me it worked after loading the installed modules json and mcrypt.

    $ sudo php5enmod json && sudo php5enmod mcrypt $ sudo service apache2 restart

    Go to http://yourserver/phpmyadmin and take a look to check if it works.

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