Activating cURL [Solved]

[JMETERX]

I have the latest version of XAMPP installed and need cURL. I noticed from the release notes it is packaged with XAMPP. I am still pretty new to all this, can anyone tell me how to get the cURL extension working with XAMPP for the linux environment (Redhat4)?

[JonB]

Actaully, I think its pretty much the same all around, Linux or not -

First you look at your phpinfo() page. You can find it on the 'XAMPP' page
or go to:
http://localhost/xampp/phpinfo.php

look for the setting you are interested in

if it is not enabled, see if the extension is present on your system. If it is, enable in in the php.ini file.

as it happens on XAMPP/LAMPP - cURL is normally enabled by default.

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cURL support   enabled
cURL Information   7.21.0
Age   3
Features
AsynchDNS   No
Debug   No
GSS-Negotiate   No
IDN   No
IPv6   No
Largefile   Yes
NTLM   Yes
SPNEGO   No
SSL   Yes
SSPI   No
krb4   No
libz   Yes
CharConv   No
Protocols   dict, file, ftp, ftps, http, https, imap, imaps, ldap, ldaps, pop3, pop3s, rtsp, smtp, smtps, telnet, tftp
Host   i686-pc-linux-gnu
SSL Version   OpenSSL/1.0.0c
ZLib Version   1.2.3


You should check this, as I have no way of knowing the condition of your system.

Good Luck

[JMETERX]

Ahh. Wow. Right in front of my face. Thank you!

[JMETERX]

So it is on but when running the php script I am receiving this error:

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Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/curl.so' - /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/curl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

[JonB]

If phpinfo() reports cURL is installed, its probably working.

Look in the section "Configure Command" IF you finf a line that says '--with curl=/opt/lampp' then you don't need to add/activate the extension in php.ini - its hardlinked in during the compile. If you added /uncommented an extension - comment it back out and restart.

I'm running 1.7.4 of LAMPP on my Fedora box, so I can't tell what is 'compiled in' in with 1.7.7