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Derek Kurth
Derek Kurth

Reputation: 1898

PHP / cURL on Windows install: "The specified module could not be found."

I'm running PHP 5.2.3 on Windows 2000 Server with IIS 5. I'm trying to get cURL working, so in my php.ini file, I have this line:

extension_dir ="F:\PHP\ext"

And later, I have:

extension=php_curl.dll

The file F:\PHP\ext\php_curl.dll exists, but when I try to run any PHP script, I get this in the error log:

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'F:\PHP\ext \php_curl.dll' - The specified module could not be found. in Unknown on line 0

Upvotes: 32

Views: 43644

Answers (7)

saeed Ahmadluei
saeed Ahmadluei

Reputation: 1

upgrading apache, or on windows if you are using xampp , just upgrade your xampp version. old version of xampp have problem with php_curl.dll. for me upgrading to [xampp control panel v3.3.0][Apache 2.4.58][XAMPP Version 8.2.12] solved problem. :)

Upvotes: 0

Maxim Rysevets
Maxim Rysevets

Reputation: 155

In your case just add "F:\PHP\ext" to Environment Variable "path".

Upvotes: 0

profnotime
profnotime

Reputation: 321

Faced this problem when I upgraded the php in UwAmp to 7.2.*. The only solution that worked for me was to download the latest version of apache at the time (Apache/2.4.37 (Win32)) and replace the one that came with UwAmp. That also involved editing the sample httpd.conf to produce an httpd_uwamp.conf file. UwAmp needs this template to then generate the actual httpd.conf when it starts up. All other suggestions above didn't resolve it for me unfortunately. Also note that as of OpenSSL 1.1, libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll are no longer required (see http://php.net/manual/en/curl.installation.php)

Upvotes: 1

Derek Kurth
Derek Kurth

Reputation: 1898

Problem solved!

Although the error message said The specified module could not be found, this is a little misleading -- it's not that it couldn't find php_curl.dll, but rather it couldn't find a module that php_curl.dll required. The 2 DLLs it requires are libeay32.dll and SSLeay32.dll.

So, you have to put those 2 DLLs somewhere in your PATH (e.g., C:\Windows\system32). That's all there is to it.

However, even that did not work for me initially. So I downloaded the Windows zip of the latest version of PHP, which includes all the necessary DLLs. I didn't reinstall PHP, I just copied all of the DLLs in the "ext" folder to my PHP extensions folder (as specified in the extension_dir variable in php.ini), and I copied the versions of libeay32.dll and SSLeay32.dll from the PHP download into my System32 directory.

I also did an iisreset, but I don't know if that was necessary.

Upvotes: 37

elQuique
elQuique

Reputation: 151

libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll have to be path-accessible for php_curl.dll to work correctly.

In Control Panel -> Search -> Advanced System Settings and use the button Environment Variables.

Under System Variables find Path add the c:/php folder (or whatever path) and restart Apache.

Upvotes: 15

Blerta
Blerta

Reputation: 2190

I keep having same problem although i did the suggestion above and many others suggested on the internet i get

Sorry, but this plugin requires libcurl to be activated on your server.

When i try to activate my plugin.

Edited: I was using php 5.3.13 had win64 windows 7 and none of the soln was working for me.

1.I had tried to copy the libeay32.dll SSLeay32.dll in windows\system32 folder did not work 2. Edited and uncommented both php.ini files did not work 3. Activated php_curl in php extensions did not work 4. Copied and replaced several times the www.anindya.com version of php_curl.dll but seems i was downloading the wrong version of this. The version that worked for me was in Fixed curl extensions section the second file php_curl-5.3.13-VC9-x64

Hope this will help anyone else

Upvotes: 1

Patrik Svensson
Patrik Svensson

Reputation: 13874

A tip is to use the WAMP-installer. Everything just works. It's not IIS though - so if it is important - you should ignore my advice. ;)

EDIT: I saw that you found the solution so I voted it up. +1

Upvotes: 5

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