How to update the PHP settings on Windows?

Question

I develop on a VM (with Debian 7), but in the current project, I have to user Composer from my Windows 7 host system. To do this I "installed" PHP (downloaded and saved in C:\\Program Files\\php-5.6.8-Win32-VC11-x64 ). As futher step I downloaded the Composer installer for Windows and started the Composer-Setup.exe -- and got an error:

Some settings on your machine make Composer unable to work properly. Make sure that you fix the issues listed below and run this script again:

The openssl extension is missing, which means that secure HTTPS transfers are impossible. If possible you should enable it or recompile php with --with-openssl

OK. The php_openssl.dll in the ext folder. I created php.ini from the php.ini-production and enabled the line extension=php_openssl.dll . But no effect. The OpenSSL modle is still not in the active modules list ( php -m ). I also tried to change the ext folder, but also this setting is not getting updated.

What should one do, in order to change PHP settings on Windows?

Answer 1

Make sure that you have extension_dir set as well, otherwise PHP will look for the extensions in an incorrect location.

The php.ini-production file has this (commented out) by default:

; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
; http://php.net/extension-dir
; extension_dir = "./"
; On windows:
; extension_dir = "ext"