PHP cURL is not loaded on modifying php.ini

Question

To enable cURL in PHP I uncomment this line

extension=php_curl.dll

But cURL did not load on restarting Apache. Even on restarting the machine. I have PHP 5.2.1 installed with AppServer on windows XP.

Please help me enabling cURL. Any kind of help is appreciated.

Do you have php_curl.dll in your PHP/ext directory? – matino Oct 12 '11 at 10:03 — matino, Oct 12 '11 at 10:03
Yes I have the php_curl.dll in my PHP/ext folder. – Shahid Karimi Oct 12 '11 at 10:06 — Shahid Karimi, Oct 12 '11 at 10:06

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 15 '15 at 09:30

6

I upgraded to PHP 5.6.4 and curl stopped working. php.ini and ext were fine.

I solved this problem by adding C:\php (my php folder) to system variable Path in the Control Panel->System-Advanced->Environment Variables.

answered Jan 15 '15 at 09:30

Oleksiy Muzalyev

But this is probably linked with the libeay32 path problem. They are in /php/ folder so the Environment Variable solve the issue. So you have the choice of moving the files or make the path "global". – François Breton May 23 '18 at 15:26

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 18 '17 at 02:13

5

Try this out:

Download the copy of the win32 PHP (not the installer one) from php.net (whichever php version that you want running on your webserver).
Then from the dll folder, copy these two files: libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll to your Windows/System32 (whichever Windows you have).
And then from the extensions folder: get your php_curl.dll and place it under your /php/extensions folder.
Check your php.ini to ensure it's referring to the correct extension folder, for example:
```
extension_dir = "./extensions/"
```
And uncomment your extension to php_curl.dll for example:
```
extension=php_curl.dll
```
Restart Apache

Thanks. Hope it works for you.

edited Jul 18 '17 at 02:13

Simon East

answered Oct 12 '11 at 10:09

Wazy

1

+1 Saved me an eternity of debugging. For me that didn't work right of the bat but i noticed i had the same files in the apache bin dir so i just removed them from there, restarted my server and there we go :) – Dany Khalife May 26 '13 at 13:29
Now with PHP 7 I can't get curl to load and unfortunately these instructions didn't help. – Simon East Jul 18 '17 at 02:19

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 12 '17 at 00:46

0

For others who didn't get php 7.1 to load with any of these answers, see Enable cURL on PHP7 windows10 64 bit Apache 2.4

answered Nov 12 '17 at 00:46

we.mamat

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