What about Curl?

[rmyles]

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm trying to find out if Curl is installed and enabled on my server. I've asked my host to find out and he replied:

 

"I just verified it in your public_html folder and the verification came up good. did you need it another folder ?"

 

It's not listed in tools->server info. I'm not sure what question to ask my host, if anyone could guide me in this area I'd be greatful

 

The error message I'm recieving is: Call to undefined function: curl_init()

 

 

Thanks in advance,

Ron

[bglkk]

I'm no expert, but generally speaking after installing cURL you need to recompile PHP to include cURL support. (I believe you'll also want to have OpenSSL support.)

 

Then you'll see something like this in tools->server info (along with '--with-curl'):

 

curl

CURL support enabled

CURL Information libcurl/7.12.0 OpenSSL/0.9.6b zlib/1.1.4

 

I'm sure somebody else around here can give you more info, but maybe it's a start... :)

[rmyles]

I'm no expert, but generally speaking after installing cURL you need to recompile PHP to include cURL support. (I believe you'll also want to have OpenSSL support.)

 

Then you'll see something like this in tools->server info (along with '--with-curl'):

 

curl

CURL support  enabled

CURL Information  libcurl/7.12.0 OpenSSL/0.9.6b zlib/1.1.4

 

I'm sure somebody else around here can give you more info, but maybe it's a start... :)

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Thanks so much,

 

This helps, if anyone else has anything more to add please do, I'd like to be able to talk as intelligently as possible.

[♥Vger]

If it's not listed in your Server Info, and you have that error - then in all likelyhood your hosting support is talking c**p. Unfortunately this is not a rare occurence.

 

Vger

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm trying to find out if Curl is installed and enabled on my server.  I've asked my host to find out and he replied:

 

"I just verified it in your public_html folder and the verification came up good. did you need it another folder ?"

 

It's not listed in tools->server info.  I'm not sure what question to ask my host, if anyone could guide me in this area I'd be greatful

 

The error message I'm recieving is: Call to undefined function: curl_init()

Thanks in advance,

Ron

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[Guest]

ask your host to give you the output of the following command:

 

curl -V

 

in server info, you can search for curl, it may be listed.

 

you can also run a 'findcurl.php' script:

 

<?

exec('which curl', $curl_output);

if ($curl_output) {

$curl_path = $curl_output[0];

echo $curl_path;

}else{

echo "No curl found";

}

?>

[rmyles]

ask your host to give you the output of the following command:

 

curl -V

 

in server info, you can search for curl, it may be listed.

 

you can also run a 'findcurl.php' script:

 

<?

exec('which curl', $curl_output);

if ($curl_output) {

$curl_path = $curl_output[0];

echo $curl_path;

}else{

echo "No curl found";

}

?>

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That's a pretty good idea, how exactly do I run that script?

 

Thanks

[rmyles]

That's a pretty good idea, how exactly do I run that script?

 

Thanks

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lol, never mind, it took me all of 3 seconds to figure that out. It came back with:

 

/usr/bin/curl

 

So I guess that tells me he's right, but I'm not sure what do about that message now.

 

Any more help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks again for that script!