How to enable PHP s openssl extension to install Composer

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I am trying to install Laravel in WAMP setup  I am getting a warning message for not enabling openssl which I had already done in WAMP   Here is a screenshot of the message

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I solved my problem a different way  The problem is that wamp s GUI was misleading  it claimed that I had php openssl enabled   and if I clicked on php ini on the same GUI   it actually showed that extension php openssl dll was uncommented     I m not sure if i m using the same installer version of composer of the OP  but it actually asks you at the beginning to specify the php exe that you like to apply composer on  which basically ensures that no one tries to apply composer to the wrong php executable as what happened with the OP     The way I solved this was by going myself into the installation of php within the wamp package  C  wamp bin php php5 4 12 and looking php in there   when I opened it I was shocked that the line extension php openssl dll was actually commented  I uncommented it and it worked just fine

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You need to enable  extension php openssl dll  in both files  php and apache   my pc files path are these      C  wamp bin php php5 3 13 php ini C  wamp bin apache apache2 2 22 bin php ini

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C  wamp bin php php5 3 13  Browse to the line that reads    extension php openssl dll   and remove the semicolon preceding the line  Restart your WAMP server services  click in your icon tray    Restart All Services

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This is an old question but I just had the same issue  with PHP7  and the solution was  in the end  pretty simple  Uncommenting the line in php ini as per the other answers wasn t quite enough though  I needed to change it from    extension php openssl dll   to   extension ext php openssl dll   Note the ext prefix  The dll already existed but was in a subfolder  After changing the config the composer installer was happy

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There are two php ini files  one for development and one for production  Leave those  there is another php ini file for configuration settings just above them with a gear like icon edit that

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For those who re having the same problem as I was  After doing all the solutions above  still didn t work for me  I found out that  uWamp was creating the PHP INI file in bin apache directory  So I had to copy the PHP INI file into php installation directory  that is  bin php phpXXXX directory  This should also be where the php exe is that you selected from the composer setup   Hope this helps

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If you still cannot solve your problem have a look at this  This might be the solution you are looking for  There are several php ini files in C  wamp bin php php x-y-z folder  You may find production  development and some other php ini files  No point of editing production and development files  Find the file which is exactly as same as the below image   You can find it  Just type php ini in your search bar and do a search   Open the file and remove   from extension php openssl dll  Save the file and close it  Restart all services in Wampp server  Re-install your composer    That is it

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I am using WAMP server  Actually its files showed that openssl is opened  But manually I went to the folder and edited php ini  Then I found it has not opened openssl I uncommented it and it worked after after WAMP restart

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If you re doing this on Windows without one of the WAMP stacks  here s how to get this going   Download an installation of PHP for Windows  Generally you ll want a non-thread safe install  You can use 32-bit or 64-bit builds Extract the zip file somewhere  I would suggest C  php  Composer s installer found it there without any additional prompting The latest versions of PHP for Windows do not come with a php ini by default  Instead  you ll see two files  as noted below  Rename one to php ini or copy it into php ini    php ini-development php ini-production  Open your php ini file and remove the semicolon from this line  you might want to uncomment other things as well but this line is the only one necessary for Composer    extension php openssl dll    That should be all you need to do  The Composer installer should do everything else you need from here

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you need to enable the openssl extension in   C  wamp bin php php5 4 12 php ini    that is the php configuration file that has it type has  configuration settings  with a driver-notepad like icon    open it either with notepad or any editor  search for openssl  your ctrl   F   would do  there is a semi-colon before the openssl extension    extension php openssl dll   remove the semi-colon and you ll have   extension php openssl dll  save the file and restart your WAMP server after that you re good to go  re-install the application again that should work

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It is possible that WAMP and Composer are using different PHP installations  Composer will use the PHP set in the PATH environment variable    If you want to enable the openssl extension to install Composer  first you need to check the location of the PHP installation    Open a Command Prompt  type  echo  PATH  then check for the location of your PHP installation  Go to that location and edit the file named  php ini  Uncomment the line extension php openssl dll by removing the semicolon at the beginning    Now you are good to install Composer

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After editting the  quot right quot  files  all php ini s   i had still the issue  My solution was   Adding a System variable  OPENSSL CONF the value of OPENSSL CONF should be the openssl cnf file of your current php version    for me it was   C  wamp bin php php5 6 12 extras ssl openssl cnf  - gt  Restart WAMP - gt  should work now Source  http   php net manual en openssl installation php

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I had the same problem and here the solution I found  on your php ini you need to do some changes    extension dir    ext  extension   php openssl dll   Every one here talks active the openssl extension  but in windows you need to active the extension dir too

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For WAMP server  comment given by  Enrique  solved my problem   wamp is using this php ini   c  wamp bin apache Apache2 4 4 bin php ini   But composer is using PHP from CLI  and hence it s reading this file   c  wamp bin php php5 4 12 php ini  so you need to enable openssl there    For composer you will have to enable extension in  c  wamp bin php php5 4 12 php ini   Change    extension php openssl dll    to  extension php openssl dll

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If you compiled from source  then adding extension php openssl dll to the php ini file may not work   To troubleshoot this  open a command prompt and type php -i  Scroll up to the first line  it will tell you the most recent error regarding your php ini file   To solve the issue  find the php openssl dll file  for me it was in the very same directory of the compilation output   C  php-sdk bin phpdev vc14 x64 php-7 0 13-src x64 Release TS So just add the directory where the extension is  to the php ini   extension dir    C  php-sdk bin phpdev vc14 x64 php-7 0 13-src x64 Release TS    Hopefully the error will be gone

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If you are using xampp  Go back to where you choose which command-line php you want to use at the beginning of your installation and select the path where your xampp folder is included After that if your installer says youve got duplicate  extension php openssl dll  comment one ssl file in your php ini with a    and your installation should run smoothly

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I faced the same problem  but when i was lokking for php ini and php exe i found php exe at C  UwAmp bin php php-5 4 15 when php ini at C  UwAmp bin apache  I just copy php ini at C  UwAmp bin php php-5 4 15 and Uncomment the line extension php openssl dll and it fixed

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Wamp works with another php ini that is in C  wamp bin apache Apache2 4 4 bin php ini  So you need to manualy find the correct file  that is in C  wamp bin php php5 4 12 php ini  Uncomment the extension php openssl dll line and just try to install Composer again

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