How do I install cURL on Windows

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I have followed all the instructions here  http   www tonyspencer com 2003 10 22 curl-with-php-and-apache-on-windows   to install  amp  config apache get the PHP5 packages and get the CURL packages   I run the apache and run a PHP script  no problem  but when I run the php script with curl  it fails    It returns     Call to undefined function curl version   in C  Program Files Apache Software Foundation Apache2 2 htdocs testing php on line 5    In which line 5 is a called to curl init    I output the php -i  to see whether the right path to extension is called   It is correctly set   extension dir   gt  C  PHP ext   gt  C  PHP ext cURL support   gt  enabled cURL Information   gt  libcurl 7 16 0 OpenSSL 0 9 8g zlib 1 2 3   I even tried to run curl version    but still  same kind of error comes up  It looks like the PHP can t find the CURL extension  but the php ini  and also php -i  shows that it is set   any idea      P S gt   System I m running on  Windows XP Apache 2 2 PHP 5 2 6 CURL Win32 Generic Binaries  Win32 2000 XP  metalink    7 19 0  binary  SSL enabled     Daniel Stenberg     249 KB   I didn t get this     Win32 2000 XP   7 19 0  libcurl     SSL enabled     G  nter Knauf    1 55 MB Should I get this one instead      The reason I need to use CURL is that it is the requirement from my project   So  I can only stick with that  XAMPP    how does it work in Windows    Is there any site that you can recommend   Thanks   I have tried a lot of things on installing cURL and check everything  but still  I m stilling circling around the problem and have no idea what s going on     The Apache server uses the right PHP ini   and the PHP ini has the correct extension dir and extension php curl dll I have no idea why it doesn t work    even I follow every step for setting it up

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You may find XAMPP at http   www apachefriends org en xampp html  http   www apachefriends org en xampp-windows html explains XMAPP for Windows   Yes  there are 3 php ini files after installation  one is for php4  one is for php5  and one is for apache  Please modify them accordingly

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You re probably mistaking what PHP ini you need to edit  first  add a PHPinfo    to a info php  and run it from your browser   Write down the PHP ini directory path you see in the variables list now  You will probably notice that it s different from your PHP-CLI ini file   Enable the extension  You re done  -

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You re probably mistaking what PHP ini you need to edit  first  add a PHPinfo    to a info php  and run it from your browser   Write down the PHP ini directory path you see in the variables list now  You will probably notice that it s different from your PHP-CLI ini file   Enable the extension  You re done  -

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Use the following steps to install curl    Open https   curl haxx se dlwiz type bin in a browser  Select your operating system in the dropdown box  either Windows  Win32 or Win 64  Click Select  For Win 32  choose whether you will use curl in a Windows Command Prompt  Generic  or in a Cygwin terminal  cygwin   For Win 64  choose whether you will use curl in a Windows Command Prompt  Generic  or MinGW  MinGW64   Click Select  If required  choose your Windows operating system  Finish  Click Download for the version which has SSL enabled or disabled Open the downloaded zip file  Extract the files to an easy-to-find place  such as C  Program Files    Testing curl   Open up the Windows Command Prompt terminal   From the Start menu  click Run  then type cmd   Set the path to include the directory where you put curl exe  For example  if you put it in C  Program Files curl  then you would type the following command  set path  path   c  Program Files curl    NOTE  You can also directly copy the curl exe file any existing path in your path   Type curl   You should see the following message  curl  try  curl    help  or  curl    message  for more information This means that curl is installed and the path is correct

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You can also use CygWin and install the cURL package   It works very well and flawlessly

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You can use binary file of curl  download file from here    http   www paehl com open source  CURL 7 22 0 Download the file and after extract put in to any drive and set the absolute path into environment now you can also use curl as a command in windows  like  c  curl -u user example com password http   localhost 3000 user sign in

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You can also use CygWin and install the cURL package   It works very well and flawlessly

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I solved the problem   In my apache  I have to specify    PHPIniDir  C   php  AddType application x-httpd-php  php  and for php ini  instead of using the php ini recommend  use php ini dist to configure my php ini   then make sure the php engine has turned on  then it works now   Thanks all

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You re probably mistaking what PHP ini you need to edit  first  add a PHPinfo    to a info php  and run it from your browser   Write down the PHP ini directory path you see in the variables list now  You will probably notice that it s different from your PHP-CLI ini file   Enable the extension  You re done  -

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Use the following steps to install curl    Open https   curl haxx se dlwiz type bin in a browser  Select your operating system in the dropdown box  either Windows  Win32 or Win 64  Click Select  For Win 32  choose whether you will use curl in a Windows Command Prompt  Generic  or in a Cygwin terminal  cygwin   For Win 64  choose whether you will use curl in a Windows Command Prompt  Generic  or MinGW  MinGW64   Click Select  If required  choose your Windows operating system  Finish  Click Download for the version which has SSL enabled or disabled Open the downloaded zip file  Extract the files to an easy-to-find place  such as C  Program Files    Testing curl   Open up the Windows Command Prompt terminal   From the Start menu  click Run  then type cmd   Set the path to include the directory where you put curl exe  For example  if you put it in C  Program Files curl  then you would type the following command  set path  path   c  Program Files curl    NOTE  You can also directly copy the curl exe file any existing path in your path   Type curl   You should see the following message  curl  try  curl    help  or  curl    message  for more information This means that curl is installed and the path is correct

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I m using XAMPP  in which there are several php ini files   You can find the line in the php ini files   extension php curl dll  Please remove   at the beginning of this line  And you may need to restart apache server

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Note  Note to Win32 Users In order to enable this module  cURL  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    This note solved my problem  Thought of sharing  libeay32 dll  amp  ssleay dll you will find in your php installation folder

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Note  Note to Win32 Users In order to enable this module  cURL  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    This note solved my problem  Thought of sharing  libeay32 dll  amp  ssleay dll you will find in your php installation folder

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I solved the problem   In my apache  I have to specify    PHPIniDir  C   php  AddType application x-httpd-php  php  and for php ini  instead of using the php ini recommend  use php ini dist to configure my php ini   then make sure the php engine has turned on  then it works now   Thanks all

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I solved the problem   In my apache  I have to specify    PHPIniDir  C   php  AddType application x-httpd-php  php  and for php ini  instead of using the php ini recommend  use php ini dist to configure my php ini   then make sure the php engine has turned on  then it works now   Thanks all

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I had also problems with this  After all these steps made correctly and some fixed misunderstandings  there is no extensions dir but extension dir  and there is no sessions save path but session save path  nothing works   Finally I found this note at php net   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 I copied ssleay32 dll  libeay32 dll  amp  php curl dll From  PHP to Windows system32 and replaced already existing files  I noticed there were older versions of ssleay32 dll and libeay32 dll   After that I found CURL section in php info    and finally everything works   Good luck

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I agree with Erroid  you must add PHP directory into PATH environment   PATH  PATH   lt Your PHP Path gt    Example  PATH  PATH  C  php   It worked for me  Thank you

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You re probably mistaking what PHP ini you need to edit  first  add a PHPinfo    to a info php  and run it from your browser   Write down the PHP ini directory path you see in the variables list now  You will probably notice that it s different from your PHP-CLI ini file   Enable the extension  You re done  -

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I m using XAMPP  in which there are several php ini files   You can find the line in the php ini files   extension php curl dll  Please remove   at the beginning of this line  And you may need to restart apache server

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I recently installed Curl on PHP5 for Windows Vista   I did not enable the CURL library when I initially installed PHP5  so nothing about Curl was showing up in phpinfo   or php ini     I installed CURL by re-running the PHP5 installer  php-5 2 8-win32-installer msi for me  and choosing  Change    Then  I added the CURL component   Restart Apache  and CURL should work   CURL will show up in phpinfo     Also  here is a sample script you can run to verify it works   It displays an RSS feed from Google        lt  php     error reporting E ALL       ini set  display errors    1         ch   curl init        curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL       http   news google com news hl en amp topic t amp output rss        curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1        contents   curl exec   ch       echo  contents      curl close   ch         gt

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I m using XAMPP  in which there are several php ini files   You can find the line in the php ini files   extension php curl dll  Please remove   at the beginning of this line  And you may need to restart apache server

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I have tried everything - but nothing helped  After searching for several hours I found this information      Apache 2 4 18 for some reason does not load php 7 2 curl  I updated my   Apache to 2 4 29 and curl loaded instantly   http   forum wampserver com read php 2 149346 149348  What should I say  I updated Apache and curl was running like charm

User · Answer

I solved the problem   In my apache  I have to specify    PHPIniDir  C   php  AddType application x-httpd-php  php  and for php ini  instead of using the php ini recommend  use php ini dist to configure my php ini   then make sure the php engine has turned on  then it works now   Thanks all

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Another answer for other people who have had this problem  when you un comment the extension line  change it to   extension C  php ext php curl dll   or the location of the extension folder  for me it did not work until i did this

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I had also problems with this  After all these steps made correctly and some fixed misunderstandings  there is no extensions dir but extension dir  and there is no sessions save path but session save path  nothing works   Finally I found this note at php net   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 I copied ssleay32 dll  libeay32 dll  amp  php curl dll From  PHP to Windows system32 and replaced already existing files  I noticed there were older versions of ssleay32 dll and libeay32 dll   After that I found CURL section in php info    and finally everything works   Good luck

User · Answer

You may find XAMPP at http   www apachefriends org en xampp html  http   www apachefriends org en xampp-windows html explains XMAPP for Windows   Yes  there are 3 php ini files after installation  one is for php4  one is for php5  and one is for apache  Please modify them accordingly

User · Answer

You can use binary file of curl  download file from here    http   www paehl com open source  CURL 7 22 0 Download the file and after extract put in to any drive and set the absolute path into environment now you can also use curl as a command in windows  like  c  curl -u user example com password http   localhost 3000 user sign in

User · Answer

I agree with Erroid  you must add PHP directory into PATH environment   PATH  PATH   lt Your PHP Path gt    Example  PATH  PATH  C  php   It worked for me  Thank you

User · Answer

You may find XAMPP at http   www apachefriends org en xampp html  http   www apachefriends org en xampp-windows html explains XMAPP for Windows   Yes  there are 3 php ini files after installation  one is for php4  one is for php5  and one is for apache  Please modify them accordingly

User · Answer

You may find XAMPP at http   www apachefriends org en xampp html  http   www apachefriends org en xampp-windows html explains XMAPP for Windows   Yes  there are 3 php ini files after installation  one is for php4  one is for php5  and one is for apache  Please modify them accordingly

User · Answer

I recently installed Curl on PHP5 for Windows Vista   I did not enable the CURL library when I initially installed PHP5  so nothing about Curl was showing up in phpinfo   or php ini     I installed CURL by re-running the PHP5 installer  php-5 2 8-win32-installer msi for me  and choosing  Change    Then  I added the CURL component   Restart Apache  and CURL should work   CURL will show up in phpinfo     Also  here is a sample script you can run to verify it works   It displays an RSS feed from Google        lt  php     error reporting E ALL       ini set  display errors    1         ch   curl init        curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL       http   news google com news hl en amp topic t amp output rss        curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1        contents   curl exec   ch       echo  contents      curl close   ch         gt

User · Answer

I m using XAMPP  in which there are several php ini files   You can find the line in the php ini files   extension php curl dll  Please remove   at the beginning of this line  And you may need to restart apache server

User · Answer

I have tried everything - but nothing helped  After searching for several hours I found this information      Apache 2 4 18 for some reason does not load php 7 2 curl  I updated my   Apache to 2 4 29 and curl loaded instantly   http   forum wampserver com read php 2 149346 149348  What should I say  I updated Apache and curl was running like charm

User · Answer

Another answer for other people who have had this problem  when you un comment the extension line  change it to   extension C  php ext php curl dll   or the location of the extension folder  for me it did not work until i did this

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