title: Amazon web services phpmyadmin: The mbstring extension is missing
body: <p>I have installed phpMyAdmin on the hand of this tutorial: 
  <a href="https://gist.github.com/suvozit/8998731">https://gist.github.com/suvozit/8998731</a>
  and connected my RDS instance as host in the /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php file.</p>
  
  <p>Now I got the following error when I visit <em>example.com/phpmyadmin/index.php</em>:</p>
  
  <p><em>The mbstring extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration.</em></p>
  
  <p>So I searched the internet for this error and people came with the following solution, which I tried:</p>
  
  <p><strong>Install the php-mbstring extension:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>yum install php-mbstring 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I enter this command the proces starts but gives the following lines back:</p>
  
  <pre><code>-&gt; Processing Conflict: php55-common-5.5.24-1.100.amzn1.x86_64 php-common &lt;5.5.24-1.100.amzn1 conflict
  -&gt; Processing Conflict: php55-mbstring-5.5.24-1.100.amzn1.x86_64 php-mbstring &lt;5.5.24-1.100.amzn1 conflict
  -&gt; Processing Conflict: php56-common-5.6.8-1.111.amzn1.x86_64 php-common &lt;5.5.22-1.98 conflict
  
  -&gt; Ready to resolve dependencies
  Error: php55-mbstring conflicts with php-mbstring 5.3.29-1.8.amzn1.x86_64
  Error: php56-common conflicts with php-common-5.3.29-1.8.amzn1.x86_64
  Error: php55-common conflicts with php-common-5.3.29-1.8.amzn1.x86_64
    You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
    You could try: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>$ php -v returns:</p>
  
  <pre><code>PHP 5.6.8 (cli) (built: Apr 17 2015 18:04:37) 
  Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
  Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
  </code></pre>