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title: Patch to remove mcrypt dependency

This page explains how to use a php package called phpseclib to remove the requirement of mcrypt. phpseclib will use mcrypt functions if it is installed but will use native php to implement the encryption if it is not installed.

Here are the steps to remove the dependency:

• Download phpseclib to /tmp (version 0.2.2 was used for testing) {tip} cd /tmp wget {nolink:http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/phpseclib/phpseclib0.2.2.zip} {tip}
• Create a directory named phpseclib in your .ht-inc directory {tip} mkdir /var/www/html/vcl/.ht-inc/phpseclib {tip}
• unzip phpseclib in the phpseclib directory {tip} cd /var/www/html/vcl/.ht-inc/phpseclib unzip /tmp/phpseclib0.2.2.zip {tip}
• Download no_mcrypt.patch to your .ht-inc directory {tip} cd /var/www/html/vcl/.ht-inc wget {nolink:http://people.apache.org/~jfthomps/no_mcrypt.patch} {tip}
• Apply the patch {tip} patch < no_mcrypt.patch {tip}