PHP error when creating a new symfony project using composer

Question

My problem is when I create a new Symfony 3.4 project with Composer.

I will enter the following command:

composer create-project symfony/website-skeleton projectName

When composer begins to create the project it will give me the following warnings:

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_openssl' (tried: C:\\php\\ext\\php_openssl (The specified module could not be found. ), C:\\php\\ext\\php_php_openssl.dll (The specified module could not be found. )) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_openssl' (tried: C:\\php\\ext\\php_openssl (The specified module could not be found. ), C:\\php\\ext\\php_php_openssl.dll (The specified module could not be found. )) in Unknown on line 0

[Composer\\Exception\\NoSslException] The openssl extension is required for SSL/TLS protection but is not available. If you can not enable the openssl extension, you can disable this error, at your own risk, by setting the 'disable-tls' option to true.

From my understanding, SSL is encryption for websites. At a judgment, I think the problem is composer cannot download Symfony securely.By telling me to try disabling TLS I think means trying to download Symfony insecurely since TLS is another form of encryption.

I have never had this problem with Composer before, I can not think of anything I have changed for this problem to occur.

If anyone has come across this problem or knows of any solutions that would be greatly appreciated because I cannot work on existing projects because of this.

EDIT: The file path it is looking down is incorrect, it should check down "C:\\wamp\\bin\\php\\php7.2.1\\ext" and not "C:\\php\\ext\\" as this file path does not exist. I am unsure how to adjust this.

Answer 1

1. Go to that location and edit the file named: php.ini
2. Uncomment the line extension=php_openssl.dll by removing the semicolon at the beginning.
3. Restart your server

Answer 2

Locate your php.ini and adjust extension_dir according to your needs. You can find more info here .