[SOLVED] getting CURL to work

[HighlandMick]

Hi guys,

 

new to this and trying to get magento online store to work. I have went through the php.ini file and removed the ; before extensions I wanted to work.

Did same to Curl and still isnt working. Is there anything else I should do to get this Curl working ?

 

Michael

[rhodesa]

what operating system?

 

Have you read the install doc? http://us3.php.net/manual/en/curl.setup.php

[HighlandMick]

HI

 

Windows XP. running xampp.

 

I will read that now. I thought maybe it was only a case of removing the ; at the start of the line.

 

Im totally new to this and trying to migrate to Linux from Windows.

 

thanks

 

michael

[HighlandMick]

I just want to check,

 

to run this Curl extension, I have to instal libcurl version 7.10.5 or similar, and it isnt just a case of removing the  ";" on the relevant line in the php.ini ?

 

mick

[PFMaBiSmAd]

As long as the main .dll file is in your ext(ension) folder and any auxiliary .dll files are in your main php folder and your main php folder has been added to the Windows path statement, and the php.ini that you are changing is the one that php is using, and you have stopped and started your web server to get any changes made to php.ini to take effect, then the extension should be enabled.

[rhodesa]

for windows, most people forget this step:

    Note: Note to Win32 Users

    In order to enable this module on a Windows environment, libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll must be present in your PATH. You don't need libcurl.dll from the cURL site.

 

so the above, remove the ; from the front of the extension line in your php.ini like this:

extension=php_curl.dll

 

then restart apache...that should be it

[HighlandMick]

I have removed the ; from extension=php_curl.dll, but i dont know what this means

 

libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll must be present in your PATH

 

should these files be in the php folder ? or written in the php.ini file ?

 

 

mick

 

ps, removing ";" didnt work, even after restarting computer

[rhodesa]

Googling around, I found some stuff pertaining to this. According to some posts, there is some confusion on the php.ini file since there are a couple of them. Try editing each of these files and making sure that extension line is uncommented:

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

C:\Program Files\xampp\php\php.ini

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

then restart apache

 

 

Resources:

http://chrismeller.com/using-curl-in-xampp

http://www.tildemark.com/programming/php/enable-curl-with-xampp-on-windows-xp.html

[PFMaBiSmAd]

phpinfo() lists the php.ini that is being loaded.

[HighlandMick]

I have googled around too and copied two files (libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll ) to the windows system folder.

 

restarted computer and still doesnt work.

 

will try those files now.

did previously change php5.ini and php-pear.ini, but that didnt change anything

 

thanks for now

 

michael

[HighlandMick]

messing with those files listed above worked, i dont know which one because I did all at the same time before restarting apache.

 

thank you very much

 

Michael

 

ps i adjusted three other lines in the php.ini file in the xampp/php folder and theat worked fine for them. this is why I was wondering if there was something else I should do for curl