How to enable cURL

Question

I am installing Magento on xampp local server on Windows 7.After location, time ,currency setting then show PHP extension “curl” must be loaded.

How to fix this error?

Answer 1

edit your php.ini file locate the "extensions" section and uncomment the php_curl.dll line.

more info at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/curl.setup.php

Answer 2

Browse for the following files:

C:\Program Files\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini
C:\Program Files\xampp\php\php.ini
C:\Program Files\xampp\php\php4\php.ini

Remove the semicolon from this line:

;extension=php_curl.dll

Then restart the apache server.

Answer 3

Edit

;extension=php_curl.dll

to:

extension=php_curl.dll

in your xampp php.ini files.

Answer 4

Uncomment the line

;extension=php_curl.dll

in xampp\php\php.ini, and then restart the Apache service.

To check it if actually works:

Simply create a new php file with:

<?php
phpinfo();
?> 

Load it in your browser and if you see cURL support - enabled, you're good to go.

Screenshot:

Hope this helps.