Composer Warning openssl extension is missing How to enable in WAMP

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Trying to install Composer dependency management tool on Win7 64   WampServer 2 2 via the Setup Installer and I am getting the following message      The openssl extension is missing  which will reduce the security and stability of Composer    If possible you should enable it or recompile php with --with-openssl     So here is what I did      From my Wamp icon in Tray   clicked php  gt  php extensions  gt  php openssl This showed that task was completed by placing a check mark beside the extension I then restarted WampServer Then from the Wamp icon in tray  I clicked php  gt  php ini and searched for openssl to verifiy it was NOT commented  out  It was not  I then went back to Composer-Setup exe and tried again  Same Warning Message   openssl extension is missing  Having never worked with OpenSSL  I m not sure what is supposed to be set  so I tried to browse to one of my local sites using https  It Failed    What am I missing   Please advise

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uncomment  extension php openssl dll in both   wamp bin php php5 4 12 php ini wamp bin apache Apache2 4 4 bin php ini   it will work

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WAMP uses different php ini files in the CLI and for Apache  when you enable php openssl through the WAMP UI  you enable it for Apache  not for the CLI  You need to modify C  wamp bin php php-5 4 3 php ini to enable it for the CLI

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I was facing the same issue  I renamed my php folder from php7 winxxxx to just php and it worked fine  It looked like composer was checking the location to the php openssl module in c  php ext   You may also need to add c  php to the PATH in environment variable

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In addition to uncommenting the  extension php openssl dll line in php ini that everyone else has mentioned  you also have to ensure the  extension dir    ext  line is also uncommented  To uncomment  remove the prefixed semicolon and save   That line might already be uncommented in packages like WAMP and XAMPP  but it s not in a plain PHP download for Windows  so it s worth verifying  Also  you have to create the php ini file by copying one of the examples  like php ini-development to a new file and then name it php ini  Then make these changes there   Also  in the future  to install tools such as PHP and Composer  I recommend using the Chocolatey package manager  Then it s as simple as choco install composer  Of course  you d still need to edit php ini before installing Composer with the choco method  In future versions of Windows  package management tools like Chocolatey will be baked into Windows  the same way apt-get is in Ubuntu  Exciting times ahead for developers   With either method  after installing Composer  don t forget to restart your terminal  Whether you re using Command Prompt  Bash  installs with Git   or Powershell  you ll need to restart it before the updated environmental variables work

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For installing Composer below steps worked me  WAMP version 2 4 x64bit   edit - gt    C  wamp bin php php5 4 12 php ini     uncomment below line or remove the semicolons     extension php openssl dll    C  wamp bin apache Apache2 4 4 bin php ini    extension php openssl dll

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All those answers are good  but in fact  if you want to understand  the extension directory need to be right if you want all you uncommented extensions to work   Can write a physical or relative path like   extension dir    C  myStack php ext    or  extension dir          php ext    It s relative to the httpd exe Apache web server  C  myStack apache bin  But if you want it to work with Composer or anything you need the physical path because the cli mode doesn t use the web server

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you need to edit the  c  Program Files wamp bin php php5 3 13 php ini   file search for   extension php openssl dll  remove the semicolon at the beginning  note  if saving the file doesn t work then you need to edit it as administrator   on win7  go to start menu  search for notepad  right-click on notepad  click  Run As Administrator   in the composer installation windows just click back then next  or close it and start again  and it should work

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Short and sweet  uncomment this line in wamp bin php php5 3 13 or whatever php version    extension php openssl dll   remove the    Now run the command line installation of Composer   You won t have an error  Good to go

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C  laravel-master composer create-project laravel laravel   Installing laravel laravel  v4 0 6      - Installing laravel laravel  v4 0 6       RuntimeException      You must enable the openssl extension to download files via https   I m using EasyPhp  WAMP type   In the EasyPHP Icon in the taskbar  right click and select configuration then select PHP  I will open the PHP ini file configuration in a Notepad  search-find or CTRL F  in notepad for the word OPENSSL you will find this  extension php openssl dll just remove the   and the extension php openssl dll is active      C  laravel-master composer create-project laravel laravel   Installing laravel laravel  v4 0 6      - Installing laravel laravel  v4 0 6        Downloading  100    Created project in C  laravel-master laravel   Loading composer repositories with package information   Installing dependencies  including require-dev

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opened wamp bin apache apache2 4 4 bin php config           wamp bin php php5 4 16 php conf settings  php-ini production  php-ini dev  phpForApache find extension php openssl dll   and uncomment by removing

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I had the same problem even though openssl was enabled  The issue was that the Composer installer was looking at this config file   C  wamp bin php php5 4 3 php ini  But the config file that s loaded is actually here   C  wamp bin apache apache2 2 22 bin php ini  So I just had to uncomment it in the first php ini file and that did the trick  This is how WAMP was installed on my machine by default  I didn t go changing anything  so this will probably happen to others as well  This is basically the same as Augie Gardner s answer above  but I just wanted to point out that you might have two php ini files

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Yes  you must have to open php ini and remove the semicolon to    extension php openssl dll   remove the     like this and it will work   extension php openssl dll   Happy Coding

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You should make a symlink to php ini  Sorry for russian link

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