Unable to load curl for PHP 5, apache & XP

[raghavan20]

I get the following error when i ran a CURL based script

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Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\TestIT.php on line 8

i have done the following as of now

1. in php.ini in c:/windows

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;extension=php_mbstring.dll
;extension=php_bz2.dll
extension=php_curl.dll
;extension=php_dba.dll
;extension=php_dbase.dll
;extension=php_exif.dll
;extension=php_fdf.dll

2. in windows path

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C:\Documents and Settings\Master Wenly>path
PATH=c:\windows;c:\windows\system32;c:\windows\System32\Wbem;c:\program files\ph
p\libeay32.dll;c:\program files\php\ssleay32.dll;c:\program files\php

3. i have also copied ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll to c:/windows and c:/windows/system32

I still cannot load cURL. any ideas? Thanks.

EDIT:
I also have another doubt.
when i changed php.ini extension setting from

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extension_dir = ".\ext"

to absolute path,

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extension_dir = "c:\program files\php\ext"

the apache started giving up error

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The application has failed to start because LIBMYSQL.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem

[feyd]

Restarted Apache? Verified the php.ini you edited is the one loading?

get_cfg_var() or phpinfo() can provide the php.ini path information.

[raghavan20]

Restarted Apache? Verified the php.ini you edited is the one loading?

get_cfg_var() or phpinfo() can provide the php.ini path information.

thanks feyd for your reply

from phpinfo()

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Configuration File (php.ini) Path  C:\WINDOWS\php.ini

apache has been restarted many times already.

[volka]

please run

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<?php

$inifile = get_cfg_var('cfg_file_path');



if ( false==$inifile ) {

        die('no config file');

}



if ( false==($cfg=file($inifile)) ) {

        die('canot read config file');

}



$extdir = get_cfg_var('extension_dir');

$extdir = str_replace('\\', '/', $extdir);

if( '/'!==substr($extdir,1, -1)) {

        $extdir .= '/';

}



echo 'ini: ', $inifile, "<br />\n";

echo 'ext: ', $extdir, "<br />\n";



$pattern = '!^\s*extension\s*=\s*(\S+)!';

foreach($cfg as $p) {

        if ( preg_match($pattern, $p, $m) ) {

                echo $m[1], ' # ', $extdir.$m[1], ' # ', file_exists($extdir.$m[1]) ? 'ok':'error', "<br />\n";

        }

}

?>

and post the output.

[raghavan20]

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ini: C:\WINDOWS\php.ini
ext: ./ext/
php_curl.dll # ./ext/php_curl.dll # error
php_mysql.dll # ./ext/php_mysql.dll # error
php_mysqli.dll # ./ext/php_mysqli.dll # error
php_xsl.dll # ./ext/php_xsl.dll # error

i could say these are the ones i enabled in php.ini file.

[raghavan20]

fyi

php installation directory: c:/program files/php
apache installation directory: c:/program files/Apache Group


Thanks.

[volka]

open C:\WINDOWS\php.ini in a text editor
find extension_dir
set extension_dir = "c:/program files/php/ext/"
save file, restart apache
try again.

[raghavan20]

open C:\WINDOWS\php.ini in a text editor
find extension_dir
set extension_dir = "c:/program files/php/ext/"
save file, restart apache
try again.

Great, Curl is working but I have a few problems as below.

i tried that but it comes up with this error

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The application has failed to start because LIBMYSQL.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem

but still the apache ran.


i ran your script and this is the output

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ini: C:\WINDOWS\php.ini
ext: c:/program files/php/ext//
php_curl.dll # c:/program files/php/ext//php_curl.dll # ok
php_mysql.dll # c:/program files/php/ext//php_mysql.dll # ok
php_mysqli.dll # c:/program files/php/ext//php_mysqli.dll # ok
php_xsl.dll # c:/program files/php/ext//php_xsl.dll # ok

Thanks for your help.

[raghavan20]

i copied this file, libmysql.dll to apache installation directory and restarted apache and everything is working without error.
i dont really know why apache cannot recognize those files from php installation directory.

[volka]

Has to do with the way windows searches for dlls, see http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?t=62010
You now have

1. The directory from which the application loaded.

[raghavan20]

on monday morning, i wanted to make a change to a cURL application and comes with this error

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Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\TestIT.php on line 8

and when i checked from where php.ini is loaded, it is from

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Configuration File (php.ini) Path  C:\Program Files\PHP\php.ini

can you guys tell me where should I change setting so that it picks up php.ini from c:/windows ? I checked httpd.conf but I cannot find any line in there specifying the location of php.ini file

Thanks.

[feyd]

If you're running Apache2, you can set the PHPIniDir directive in httpd.conf. Alternately, you could delete the php.ini it is finding in Program Files.

[raghavan20]

it works now.

i am running apache 2.2 even though i used apache 2 dll for php to run the PHP.
i could not find any phpIniDir setting inside httpd.conf in apache-install-dir/conf/

i then deleted the file in c:/program files/php which is the php-install-dir then it picked up file from c:/windows.

why is this happening feyd?

thanks for your reply.

[feyd]

PHP and Windows will use the php.ini found first. Windows will search in the current directory of the executable first before looking in the PATH.

[raghavan20]

oh good. that is logical even though that is not our expected behaviour.