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How to Enable libcurl in WAMP

Added by on September 16th, 2008, filed under PHP, Tutorials, Web Development

Are you are getting “Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init()” and you’re using WAMP, you’ve got to perform a few extra steps to get cURL working.

Wamp comes with a lot of extensions, including cURL, it is just a matter of getting the extension loaded when wamp is started. And no, enabling php_curl from within the wamp menu is not how to do it.

For some reason, that just doesn’t work.

How to Enable libcurl in WAMP

Here are the steps for getting cURL enabled in WAMP.

Step 1

  • Open C:wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6\php.ini
  • Find “;extension=php_curl.dll” and remove the semicolon to uncomment the line
  • Do the same for C:wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.8\bin\php.ini

Note: the version of WAMP you’re running does not really matter. The step should be the same for all versions.

Step 2

Next, you need to make sure apache can find the extension to load, so make sure that in both php.ini files, you find the lines:

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; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
extension_dir = "C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6\ext"

Make them both point to the ext folder within your PHP folder. By default, they will be set to something like /usr/bin/ext. This is what you will need to change.

Step 3

Restart wamp and it should all work. You can look in the phpinfo() to see if cURL was loaded. If it still doesn’t work, check the apache error log within the wamp logs folder for additional clues.

Good luck!

About the Author: Joshua McGinnis

Joshua is a web designer and developer for Intuit, Inc. His other interests include guitar, photography, mycology, amateur chemistry, WWII movies and his beautiful wife Catherine.

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Reader Comments (17)

  1. Brando Bandido January 13, 2010 at 10:31 pm

    Thanks! It really helps!

    Reply
  2. akm1313 March 2, 2010 at 1:01 am

    Thanks! … works a charm

    Reply
  3. Jason Priem March 9, 2010 at 11:03 pm

    Thanks! WAMP was using curl just fine, but I was having trouble getting the NetBeans IDE’s PHPUnit support working with curl. Uncommenting the appropriate line in php.ini did the trick.

    Reply
  4. user March 24, 2010 at 11:21 pm

    Thanks! Works

    Reply
  5. Morteza May 31, 2010 at 6:55 am

    YOU’RE MY HERO :D

    Really works…… SO MANY thanks

    Reply
  6. monnster December 15, 2010 at 10:29 am

    the trick [extension_dir = "C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6\ext"]

    Reply
  7. Divesh January 3, 2011 at 3:28 pm

    Really a cool steps. Thanks Buddy

    Reply
  8. jay March 18, 2011 at 2:47 am

    shit man. you’re brilliant

    Reply
  9. rudrah April 29, 2011 at 8:24 am

    Thanks buddy its really works

    Reply
  10. Nitin May 12, 2011 at 11:29 am

    Thanks man. Made my life cool….

    Reply
  11. Stuart June 13, 2012 at 6:38 am

    still couldnt get wordpress to install after following the above steps!!!

    Reply
  12. Alejandro July 2, 2012 at 6:21 pm

    did all the steps, both php.ini files include:
    extension=php_curl.dll (uncommented)
    AND
    ; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules)

    reside.
    ; http://php.net/extension-dir
    ; extension_dir = “./”
    ; On windows:
    ; extension_dir = “ext”
    extension_dir = “c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\ext”

    but still is not working… any advices?

    Reply
  13. Mukesh July 3, 2012 at 12:53 pm

    Thanks Joshua. You saved my day.

    Reply
  14. not September 6, 2012 at 5:49 pm

    Did not work. Changed in both ini files. Made sure the extensionpaths were correct, updated even the curl dll-file and restarted.. No working..

    Reply
  15. Arvind November 28, 2012 at 7:07 am

    Doesn’t work for me :(

    Reply
  16. Vinay Raghu February 2, 2013 at 1:12 pm

    Thank you kind sir

    Reply
  17. Vinay Raghu February 2, 2013 at 1:13 pm

    Thank you! It worked.. God bless!!!

    Reply

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