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1. johan says:

   April 8, 2007 at 8:10 am

   Do you have to install curl or does it come with XAMPP?

   I did phpinfo() and curl doesn’t show up, even though I uncommented it as you directed.

   Thanks if you can help.
2. Gabriel says:

   April 9, 2007 at 8:12 am

   hi jonah, curl is a module in php, identified by libcurl. In XAMPP, this comes pre-packaged, but not pre-installed. You may want to try restarting your XAMPP server, via xampp-control.exe which should be in your xampp root directory.
3. Dao By Design says:

   August 26, 2007 at 10:49 am

   Awesome! Thanks.
4. Ewan says:

   August 28, 2007 at 5:33 am

   Brilliant. Thanks for this.
5. MAGARA says:

   November 21, 2007 at 8:19 am

   Just Briliant. I have been pacing around trying to figure out how to get this working until i came across your awsome post. Many thanks.
6. Gabriel says:

   November 21, 2007 at 11:37 pm

   @Magara, @Ewan, @Dao – Glad I could help!
7. Jodi says:

   November 30, 2007 at 5:46 pm

   Thanks for this post! Now I don’t have to dig through pages of text or forums! Yay!
8. norm says:

   January 7, 2008 at 1:14 pm

   MAY NEED TO RESTART WINDOWS – ONLY RESTARTING APACHE MAY NOT BE ALL THATS NEEDED
9. Edmonds Commerce Blog says:

   February 27, 2008 at 7:37 am

   Using cURL with XAMPP…

   If you have read through this blog, you will realise that I am a big fan of the cURL library for PHP. Also, when using windows to code – I like to use the XAMPP package to give me easy access to an Apache, PHP and MySQL stack.
   So here is my quick guide…
10. Ahmad says:

    May 2, 2008 at 10:14 am

    Thnx very much , this post help me alot THANKS !b
11. Murali Krishna K says:

    August 4, 2008 at 5:55 am

    Thanks for this simple steps … helped a lot.
12. Progress says:

    October 6, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    I also did what u say.. … uncommented but still it says “You must have CURL installed with SSL Support for WHMCS to function correctly” ….

    any help with this problem?
13. Gabriel says:

    October 6, 2008 at 10:50 pm

    Hi Progress – Gosh, Im not sure what WHMCS is, but it sounds like you need to have SSL support running as well, which is also an Apache mod like cURL. Do you have OpenSSL running? You may need to get both running, then shut down XAMPP and restart it. Let me know if any of this helps.
14. Jose Merlin AR says:

    November 10, 2008 at 7:14 am

    Please follow the steps for curl:

    1. Locate XAMPP install directory
    2. open php/php.ini
    3. do a search for the word ‘curl’ and uncomment (remove the leading semicolon) that line
    4. save & close
    5. open apache/bin/php.ini
    6. search for curl, uncomment as before
    7. save & close
    8. restart apache
15. sXe says:

    January 14, 2009 at 11:48 am

    Thanks man!
16. Rocklion says:

    February 9, 2009 at 10:57 am

    Thanks man, it worked.
    P.S.: The cURL library is included in xampp, you need only to uncomment the requested lines in the configuration files. Happy coding
17. Sameer Arora says:

    March 15, 2009 at 4:35 pm

    Excellent Post, I got it kicking in less than 2 min

    Thanks !
18. Chris says:

    March 19, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    Thanks so much. Saved me a lot of time.
19. Roberto says:

    April 21, 2009 at 2:21 am

    Muchas gracias!
20. Vishnu says:

    May 15, 2009 at 7:48 am

    How to install curl in xampp on linux
21. Anwar says:

    May 21, 2009 at 4:51 am

    Thanks man ! I enjoyed it a lot .
22. C says:

    June 8, 2009 at 9:08 am

    Thanks a ton!
23. Mirza Fariad says:

    June 10, 2009 at 7:51 am

    Dear Sir, Thanks verymuch for this post. It make my work faster as to being download curl and deploying and install was a big work.

    But i have problem i did’nt find any php.ini file in apache.. But i made a change in php folder.
24. Seong says:

    June 11, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    - in php\php.ini, extension=php_curl.dll was already uncommented.
    - I don’t see php.ini in Apache directory
    - I don’t see also *libcurl* named files.
    - I’m getting “Warning: include_once(simple_html_dom.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in ” message in my browser.
25. Astorino says:

    September 7, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    Thanks so much. Saved me a lot of time….
26. uza' says:

    September 10, 2009 at 10:27 am

    Thanks “Jose Merlin”
27. immortalnights says:

    October 26, 2009 at 5:58 am

    Perfect, thank you.

    I expect restarting Apache would be required more often then not. It was for me, so might be worth adding it to the list just to avoid confusion.
28. Tushar Kapila says:

    October 28, 2009 at 6:27 am

    windows XP SP 3 – with the 2009 August XAMP the ini is only in the php folder (makes sense) after uncommenting i registgered the dlls in the windows folder (after copying them from the xamp\php folder) ….

    also added the php folder with all the dlls and the apache/bin to my System Path var

    but no curl!

    now restarting PC!
29. joel says:

    October 31, 2009 at 9:42 pm

    Thanks man, it works..
30. joel says:

    October 31, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    Thanks and I didnt find php.ini file inside apache/bin. I got curl without changing anything inside apache dir……….Thanks again
31. robert says:

    November 8, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    Awesome!!!
32. Jamal says:

    January 27, 2010 at 12:22 am

    That was brilliant, it works
33. santosh says:

    February 18, 2010 at 5:32 am

    thanx alot. small tips but of great value. I was able to successfully install moodle due to your valuable suggestion
34. Dan Hall says:

    March 9, 2010 at 2:26 pm

    Thanks, very simple and it worked.. Now able to to run cURL from my home box… saves a lot of time of time.
35. Maa-ku Online says:

    March 11, 2010 at 10:13 pm

    Thanks! It works!
36. Parry says:

    March 19, 2010 at 10:14 am

    Thanks a ton! Lot of results on the web, but nothing worked. It seems like they are not aware of multiple php.ini present. Yours worked for me perfectly!
37. Raja says:

    May 2, 2010 at 8:05 am

    Wonderful !!!! You Have Done Your Job Beautifully !!!! Keep It Up…..
38. Linda Jobs says:

    May 3, 2010 at 10:19 am

    many thanks dude for very simple but useful tip! You saved my time a lot.
39. Upload says:

    May 21, 2011 at 11:52 am

    wow.. its realy works.. thankss dud
40. Prasanna says:

    June 7, 2011 at 4:36 am

    Thanks a lot….
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42. Mahesh says:

    June 13, 2011 at 1:33 am

    Thanks a lot man.
43. Shankar says:

    July 7, 2011 at 10:21 am

    Thanks a lot man
    it is just so simple ans amazing.
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    July 12, 2011 at 6:27 am

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45. Rob says:

    July 18, 2011 at 12:23 pm

    hey I read this and other info on the web about curl. i followed the instructions and restarted xampp but I still got this problem. where am I going wrong?
46. harish says:

    July 30, 2011 at 1:36 pm

    Awesome.. It worked for me. Thanks for sharing the tip..
47. Keith says:

    August 3, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    Wow. I hate to admit it but this solution took forever for me to find. Thank you so much, keep on keeping on!
48. Doublet says:

    August 12, 2011 at 10:44 am

    1. There was no php.ini in apache folder
    2. Make sure to restart Apache

    Works like a charm!
49. Montreal Limo says:

    August 30, 2011 at 12:25 am

    Do we have to re-start the server? Because this did not work for me, I could not actually for a php.ini in the apache directory.