PHP 无法加载 php_curl.dll 扩展

Question

Follow-up from my post yesterday ( Enabling cURL with PHP )

The problem is that PHP isn't able to load php_curl.dll. I've tried several steps including uncommenting extension=php_curl.dll , making sure the dependencies libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll eixst in the path, re-downloading php_curl.dll, replacing the old one, and lastly copying the file into my System32 folder.

I'm using Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.4.14. I installed both using their individual packages; I'm not using XAMP or WAMP. I'm using Windows 7 64-bit.

Any help at all would be appreciated.

Answer 1

libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll have to be path-accessible for php_curl.dll loading to succeed.

But copying them into Apache's ServerRoot , Apache's \\bin\\ , Window's \\System32\\ , or even worse into the Windows main directory is a bad hack and may not even work with newer PHP versions.

The right way to do it is to add the PHP path to the Windows Path variable.

1. In Control Panel -> System click on Advanced System Settings or press WIN + R and type SystemPropertiesAdvanced
2. Click the button Environment Variables .
3. Under System Variables you will find the Path variable. Edit it and prepend C:\\PHP; to it - or whatever the path to your PHP folder is.
   (Hint: If your PHP folder contains spaces like C:\\Program Files\\PHP you may need to use the short filename form here, ie C:\\Progra~1\\PHP .)
4. Then fully stop Apache and start it again (a simple restart might not be enough).

Update 2017-05:
I changed the instructions above to prepend the Path variable with the PHP path instead of appending to it. This makes sure that the DLLs in the PHP path are used and not any other (outdated) versions in other paths of the system.

Update 2018-04:
If you have already chosen the wrong way and copied any of the PHP DLLs to Apache or Windows paths, then I strongly recommend that you remove them again! If you don't, you might get into trouble when you later try to update PHP. If a new PHP version brings new versions of these DLLs, but your old DLLs still linger around in system or webserver paths, these old DLLs might be found first. This will most certainly prevent the PHP interpreter from starting. Such errors can be very hard to understand and resolve. So better clean up now and remove any of the mentioned DLLs from Windows and Apache paths, if you copied them there.
(Thanks to @EdmundTam and @WasimA. for pointing out this problem in the comments!)

Update 2019-10:
Tip: To find all copies of these DLLs and check whether you might have placed them in the wrong folders, you can use the following commands in a Windows Command Prompt window:

dir c:\libeay32.dll /s
dir c:\ssleay32.dll /s

Be warned that these commands may take some time to complete as they search through the entire directory structure of your system drive C:.

Update 2020-08:
If your PHP folder contains spaces (ie C:\\Program Files\\PHP ) you may need to use the short filename form in the Path variable at step 3 (ie C:\\Progra~1\\PHP ). Thanks to @onee for this tip!

Answer 2

In PHP 5.6.x version You should do the following:

Move to Windows\\system32 folder DLLs from php folder:

libssh2.dll, ssleay32.dll, libeay32.dll and php_curl.dll from php ext folder

Move to Apache24\\bin folder from php folder:

libssh2.dll

Also, don't forget to uncomment extension=php_curl.dll in php.ini

Answer 3

WINDOWS Apache 2.4.x + PHP 7.0.x SOLUTION HERE:

Solution: Put libeay32.dll , libssh2.dll , ssleay32.dll files under dir specified in httpd.conf 's ServerRoot directive. These dlls can be found compiled under php root folder.

Reasons:

Problem is php_curl.dll requires to access following libraries while loading: libeay32.dll , libssh2.dll , ssleay32.dll and it does not make sense if you put them in . /php/ext dir or if you put PHP extensions in PHP root dir.

Of course you can put them in C:\\Windows or in some global folder defined in PATH but if you don't want to do this and you want that your apache+php installation was portable:

The path specified in ServerRoot in httpd.conf is treated as home path for php. The behaviour is similar to situation where you include . /path/to/some.php file in . /index.php and home path for some.php file is still . / the dir where index.php resides.

In shorts just put those three dlls right in dir you specified in httpd.conf ServerRoot directive and php_curl.dll will not fail to load again.

Answer 4

You are loading .dll so your OS has to be windows.

First check which php.ini file you are using by running phpinfo()

Then check where your extensions folder is by checking extension_dir attribute in that file.

Next make sure that php_curl.dll is present in that folder. If not copy it over.

Restart apache and check if it works.

Since you installed packages individually, also do this:

Copy the dll file from php_installation_folder/extensions to apache_installation_folder/bin

Answer 5

Usually this is an OpenSSL version mismatch error, between Apache and PHP. In case Apache loads PHP as a DSO module, its own OpenSSL versions (dlls and libs) will be used. So, in case the PHP extension requires a newer version, it may not find the appropriate interface inside the Apache-loaded DLLS and it will fail to work.

Since you need the PHP extension to load, you need the relevant DLL files to be at least the version of what the PHP module asks for. Supposing that you 're using lastest builds for both Apache and PHP and both having been built with the same MVC version, you can copy the following files:

• libcrypto-1_1.dll
• libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll
• libcurl.dll
• libsasl.dll
• libssh2.dll
• libssl-1_1.dll
• libssl-1_1-x64.dll
• nghttp2.dll
• libeay32.dll (if existing in your PHP distribution)
• ssleay32.dll (if existing in your PHP distribution)

from the PHP root folder to the Apache2/bin folder, in case you 're confident that the PHP build is newer than the Apache build.

In the opposite case, you can copy the same files from the Apache BIN to the PHP root.

In any case, backup the contents of the APache and PHP folders beforehand.

Adding the PHP path as an enviromental variable will give priority to this path for loading the relevant DLLs and may solve the problem. However, you lose in server portability. Additionally, if you have also added the Apache PATH as a variable and the OpenSSL versions are way different (up to loading different linked DLL files), a lot of shit may happen.

Answer 6

Make sure to have your apache SSH dlls loading correctly. On a fresh install I had to download and load into my apache bin directory the following dll "libssh2.dll"

After ssl dll was loaded cURL was able to load with no issues.

You can download it from the link below:

http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/ssh2/0.12/

Answer 7

Solution:

Step1: Uncomment the php_curl.dll from php.ini

Step2: Copy the following three files from php installed directory.i.e "C:\\php7".

libeay32.dll,
libssh2.dll,
ssleay32.dll

Step3: Paste the files under two place

httpd.conf's ServerRoot directive. i.e "C\Apache24"
apache bin directory. i.e "C\Apache24\bin"

Step4: Restart apache.

That's all. I solve the problem by this way.Hope it might work for you.

The solution is given here. https://abcofcomputing.blogspot.com/2017/06/php7-unable-to-load-phpcurldll.html

Answer 8

After having tried everything here I had to simply upgrade Apache to a newer version in order to make curl extension work.

I was upgrading PHP from 7.0.2 to 7.1.15 after which curl did not work. Only way to fix it was upgrade Apache (which was version 2.4.18) to the latest 2.4.29.

Didn't have to copy any of the lib/ssleay dll files to either Apache or Windows - possibly because I already have the PHP folder in my system path.

Running Windows 10, 64-bit, thread-safe versions, VC14.

Answer 9

Insert to file httpd.conf

LoadFile "D:/DevKit/PHP7.1/libeay32.dll"
LoadFile "D:/DevKit/PHP7.1/libssh2.dll"
LoadFile "D:/DevKit/PHP7.1/ssleay32.dll"

Answer 10

In php.ini you must put the extension_dir static path. extension_dir = "C:\\laragon\\bin\\php\\php-7.3.11-Win32-VC15-x64\\ext" by example. Don't forget to remove the semicolon before this variable.

Answer 11

我之前也遇到过同样的问题，我通过在windows系统环境变量---路径中添加php目录解决了。

Answer 12

I got this error because, on my system at least, if extension_dir in php.ini is set to a relative path, it is taken as being relative to the root Apache directory, so to get it to point to the correct directory I had to use an absolute path: "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\PHP\\ext" . (This was PHP 5.5.31 and Apache 2.4.23 on Windows 10; setting extension_dir to ext worked just fine with the same setup on Windows 7. I first got it to work by putting an ext directory in the Apache folder with the necessary dlls, then figured out what was happening.)

It was also necessary to set the PATH correctly or make sure the dlls mentioned above (libeay32.dll, libssh2.dll, and ssleay32.dll) are in Apache's bin directory (or most likely any of the places other answers mention). The fact that I got the same error message for Apache not being able to find lib_curl.dll as for it not being able to find libssh2.dll did not make things any easier to figure out.

Answer 13

Add your php folder path to the System PATH and everything should work fine. It will also fix some other extensions that are broken.

Answer 14

Maybe not the best approach, but it definitely works. (2019-2022)

"Your install of PHP does not have the 'php_curl.dll' extension enabled."

1. find "php.ini", if no you have to rename "php.ini-development" to "phh.ini". Open it.

2. find;extension_dir = "ext"

3. add these under that line, there is no ";"

extension_dir = "[php dir]\ext"
extension=php_curl.dll