curl is not working in my ubuntu vps - php

I am using ubnutu server in atlantic vps. I have installed lamp stack and all the required configuration for php. I have installed curl and it is also enabled. in php.ini allow_url_fopen = On; ; but it still not working.

You need to install the php cURL extension by logging into the command line of your vps and entering the following command...
sudo apt-get install php5-curl
You then need to restart the server using the command
sudo service apache2 restart
If you are using php-fpm you will need to restart php5-fpm instead using the command
sudo service php5-ftp restart
cURL is the better option anyway as it isn't affected by security configurations in PHP such as forbidden fopen of remote URI's etc.

Related

Why does my website loads infinitely after I tried the sleep method?

So I was playing with the sleep method of php. I coded sleep(99999); Now my website won't load lol. Is it because of that? How can I fix it?
I think you can just restart apache, or php-fpm if you are using php-fpm. And why in the world would you try that!
You must restart your server if restarting your web server didn't work. Or, it will just be stuck in a delay until the sleep time ends.
I would advise you not to play with a production server. Use a test server for these tests. Because it is not as easy to reset these issues.
For example, when you are using shared hosting, you cannot restart apache yourself.
How do I setup a test server:
Install some software like XAMPP if you are using Windows in your home PC. Or, if you are using Linux, you can just install apache and php using the following commands on:
Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt install apache2 php
CentOS/Fedora: sudo yum install epel-release, and sudo yum install httpd php or sudo dnf install httpd php
Arch Linux/Manjaro: sudo pacman -S apache php php-apache

Change apache2 php path

I am using https://github.com/wilmoore/php-version to switch between php versions on my local machine, installed within ~/php/versions. Currently setting up separate VMs with different versions of php installed is not an option.
When I switch php version through the command line using the linked tool, I see it listed as php 7. This also works when using php -v. I have restarted terminal and the machine and it still says php 7.
I have updated composer.json to require php 7.0.2 and greater. Yet when I use phpinfo() in my laravel application, it always states the default PHP Version 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.14.
Where is laravel pointing to the php distribution in my Ubuntu 14.04.3 machine and where can I change this path?
EDIT: I am using Apache. I can see in the phpinfo() output that it is reading the ini file from /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini. I have looked in this file but cannot see where to point to the php distribution.
first make sure that php7.*.conf and php7.*.load files are exist in /etc/apache2/mods-available directory.
then use sudo a2enmod php7.* to enable the mod
use sudo a2dismod php5.* to disable the mod
after running the two commands restart your apache2 server
using sudo systemctl restart apache2
The Apache loads the php5_module library in /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.load.
LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
If you know the loactions of your alternative libraries you can change them in this file.
After editing you need to restart your apache. sudo service apache2 restart or sudo systemctl restart apache2.service
Had the same issue on ubuntu16.
ls -l /etc/apache2/mods-available/php7* ,
showed 2 versions -
/etc/apache2/mods-available/php7.0.conf
/etc/apache2/mods-available/php7.2.conf
Deleted the /etc/apache2/mods-available/php7.0.conf, restarted apache2, and phpinfo() via apache2 showed php7.2

I have curl support, but curl_init fails [duplicate]

I try PHP Post Request inside a POST Request thinking it might be useful for me. My code is given below:
$sub_req_url = "http://localhost/index1.php";
$ch = curl_init($sub_req_url);
$encoded = '';
// include GET as well as POST variables; your needs may vary.
foreach($_GET as $name => $value) {
$encoded .= urlencode($name).'='.urlencode($value).'&';
}
foreach($_POST as $name => $value) {
$encoded .= urlencode($name).'='.urlencode($value).'&';
}
// chop off last ampersand
$encoded = substr($encoded, 0, strlen($encoded)-1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $encoded);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
from the index.php file and index2.php is another file in the same directory and when I open the page I get the following error in my error.log file:
[Sat Dec 18 15:24:53 2010] [error] [client ::1] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /var/www/testing1/index.php on line 5
What I want to do is to have a reservation form that send post request. Then I want to process post values and send again the post request to paypal.
You need to install CURL support for php.
In Ubuntu you can install it via
sudo apt-get install php5-curl
If you're using apt-get then you won't need to edit any PHP configuration, but you will need to restart your Apache.
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
If you're still getting issues, then try and use phpinfo() to make sure that CURL is listed as installed. (If it isn't, then you may need to open another question, asking why your packages aren't installing.)
There is an installation manual in the PHP CURL documentation.
For Windows, if anybody is interested, uncomment the following line (by removing the ;) from php.ini
;extension=php_curl.dll
Restart apache server.
I got it working in ubuntu 16.04 by following steps.My php version was 7.0
sudo apt-get install php7.0-curl
sudo service apache2 restart
i got it from this link check here for more details
For Ubuntu:
add extension=php_curl.so to php.ini to enable, if necessary. Then sudo service apache2 restart
this is generally taken care of automatically, but there are situations - eg, in shared development environments - where it can become necessary to re-enable manually.
The thumbprint will match all three of these conditions:
Fatal Error on curl_init() call
in php_info, you will see the curl module author (indicating curl is installed and available)
also in php_info, you will see no curl config block (indicating curl wasn't loaded)
In my case, in Xubuntu, I had to install libcurl3 libcurl3-dev libraries. With this command everything worked:
sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl
Just adding my answer for the case where there are multiple versions of PHP installed in your system, and you are sure that you have already installed the php-curl package, and yet Apache is still giving you the same error.
curl_init() undefined even if php-curl is enabled in Php 7.
Had this problem but found the answer here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1116448/cannot-enable-php-curl-on-ubuntu-18-04-php-7-2
Had to:
sudo a2dismod php7.0
And:
sudo a2enmod php7.2
Then:
sudo service apache2 restart
This was after a system upgrade to next version of Ubuntu. All the other answers I found were stale, due to a bad cert apparently on the PPA most of them pointed out, but would probably not have worked anyway. The real issue was disabling the old versions of php, apparently.
Found the solution here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1116448/cannot-enable-php-curl-on-ubuntu-18-04-php-7-2
To fix this bug, I did:
In php.ini file, uncomment this line: extension=php_curl.dll
In php.ini file, uncomment this line: extension_dir = "ext"
I restarted NETBEANS, as I was using Built-in server
I got this error using PHP7 / Apache 2.4 on a windows platform. curl_init worked from CLI but not with Apache 2.4. I resolved it by adding LoadFile directives for libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll:
LoadFile "C:/path/to/Php7/libeay32.dll"
LoadFile "C:/path/to/Php7/ssleay32.dll"
LoadFile "C:/path/to/Php7/php7ts.dll"
LoadModule php7_module "C:/path/to/Php7/php7apache2_4.dll"
This answer is for https request:
Curl doesn't have built-in root certificates (like most modern browser do). You need to explicitly point it to a cacert.pem file:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, '/path/to/cert/file/cacert.pem');
Without this, curl cannot verify the certificate sent back via ssl. This same root certificate file can be used every time you use SSL in curl.
You can get the cacert.pem file here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html
Reference PHP cURL Not Working with HTTPS
Step 1 :
C:/(path to php folder)/php.ini
enable extension=php_curl.dll
(remove the ; at the end of the line)
Step 2 :
Add this to Apache/conf/httpd.conf (libeay32.dll, ssleay32.dll, libssh2.dll find directly in php7 folder)
# load curl and open ssl libraries
LoadFile "C:/(path to php folder)/libeay32.dll"
LoadFile "C:/(path to php folder)/ssleay32.dll"
LoadFile "C:/(path to php folder)/libssh2.dll"
On newer versions of PHP on Windows, like PHP 7.x, the corresponding configuration lines suggested on previous answers here, have changed. You need to uncomment (remove the ; at the beginning of the line) the following line:
extension_dir = "ext"
extension=curl
(Trying to get Curl working via PHP and Apache on Windows...)
I kept getting an error saying:
Call to undefined function 'curl_init()'
I made sure I had enabled curl with this line in my php.ini file:
extension=php_curl.dll
I made sure the extension_dir variable was being set properly, like this:
extension_dir = "ext"
I was doing everything everyone else said on the forums and curl was not showing up in my call to phpinfo(), and I kept getting that same error from above.
Finally I found out that Apache by default looks for php.ini in the C:\Windows folder. I had been changing php.ini in my PHP installation folder. Once I copied my php.ini into C:\Windows, everything worked.
Took me forever to figure that out, so thought I'd post in case it helps someone else.
For PHP 7 and Windows x64
libeay32.dll, libssh2.dll and ssleay32.dll should not be in apache/bin and should only exist in php directory and add php directory in system environment variable. This work for me.
Obvisouly in php.ini you should have enable php_curl.dll as well.
RusAlex answer is right in that for Apache you have to install and enable curl and restart your apache service:
sudo apt-get install php5-curl
sudo service apache2 restart
On my Ubuntu Server with nginx and php5-fpm I however ran into the following problem. I had to restart nginx and php5-fpm like so:
sudo service nginx restart
sudo service php5-fpm restart
But I had non-working php5-fpm processes hanging around, which apparently is a bug in ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/+bug/1242376
So I had to kill all idle php5-fpm processes to able to restart php5-fpm so that the curl module is actually loaded
sudo kill <Process Id of php5-fpm Process)
function curl_int();
cause server error,install sudo apt-get install php5-curl
restart apache2 server .. it will work like charm
For linux you can install it via
sudo apt-get install php5-curl
For Windows(removing the ;) from php.ini
;extension=php_curl.dll
Restart apache server.
On Ubuntu 18.04 these two commands solve my this problem.
sudo apt-get install php5.6-curl //install curl for php 5.6
sudo service apache2 restart //restart apache
Seems you haven't installed the Curl on your server.
Check the PHP version of your server and run the following command to install the curl.
sudo apt-get install php7.2-curl
Then restart the apache service by using the following command.
sudo service apache2 restart
Replace 7.2 with your PHP version.
I also faced this issue. My Operating system is Ubuntu 18.04 and my PHP version is PHP 7.2.
Here's how I solved it:
Install CURL on Ubuntu Server:
sudo apt-get install curl
Add the PHP CURL repository below to your sources list:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
Refresh your package database
sudo apt update
Install PHP-curl 7.2
sudo apt install php7.2-fpm php7.2-gd php7.2-curl php7.2-mysql php7.2-dev php7.2-cli php7.2-common php7.2-mbstring php7.2-intl php7.2-zip php7.2-bcmath
Restart Apache Server
sudo systemctl restart apache2
That's all.
I hope this helps
Yet another answer ...
If you land here in Oct 2020 because PHP on the command line (CLI) has stopped working, guess what ... some upgrades will move you to a different/newer version of PHP silently, without asking!
Run:
php --version and you might be surprised to see what version the CLI is running.
Then run:
ll /usr/bin/php and you might be surprised to see where this is linking to.
It's best to reference the SPECIFIC version of PHP you want when calling the PHP binary directly and not a symbolic link.
Example:
/usr/bin/php7.3 will give you the exact version you want. You can't trust /usr/bin/php or even just typing php because an upgrade might switch versions on you silently.
I have solved this issue in Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS and PHP Version 7.4.3
Update the package index:
sudo apt-get update
Install php7.4-curl deb package:
sudo apt-get install php7.4-curl
This worked for me with raspian:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install php-curl
finally:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
or:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
To install the last version of php-curl on Ubuntu, use this:
sudo apt-get install php-curl -y

Apache2, Wordpress index.php not executed, just text file

I have a problem with apache2, wordpress and php.
I configured virtual hosts and copied the existing wordpress (installed in single host).
The web server is working fine and loads the index.php, but doesn't execute it.
Check mod-enabled folder in your apache. You must have two files their php5.load and php5.conf. If not present, its means php support is not their.To enable php support use command a2enmod php5
It is because your apache2 can't execute php.
In my case, I install libapache2-mod-php by:
aptitude install libapache2-mod-php7.0
Then restart apache by:
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
May it help you.

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init()

I try PHP Post Request inside a POST Request thinking it might be useful for me. My code is given below:
$sub_req_url = "http://localhost/index1.php";
$ch = curl_init($sub_req_url);
$encoded = '';
// include GET as well as POST variables; your needs may vary.
foreach($_GET as $name => $value) {
$encoded .= urlencode($name).'='.urlencode($value).'&';
}
foreach($_POST as $name => $value) {
$encoded .= urlencode($name).'='.urlencode($value).'&';
}
// chop off last ampersand
$encoded = substr($encoded, 0, strlen($encoded)-1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $encoded);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
from the index.php file and index2.php is another file in the same directory and when I open the page I get the following error in my error.log file:
[Sat Dec 18 15:24:53 2010] [error] [client ::1] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /var/www/testing1/index.php on line 5
What I want to do is to have a reservation form that send post request. Then I want to process post values and send again the post request to paypal.
You need to install CURL support for php.
In Ubuntu you can install it via
sudo apt-get install php5-curl
If you're using apt-get then you won't need to edit any PHP configuration, but you will need to restart your Apache.
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
If you're still getting issues, then try and use phpinfo() to make sure that CURL is listed as installed. (If it isn't, then you may need to open another question, asking why your packages aren't installing.)
There is an installation manual in the PHP CURL documentation.
For Windows, if anybody is interested, uncomment the following line (by removing the ;) from php.ini
;extension=php_curl.dll
Restart apache server.
I got it working in ubuntu 16.04 by following steps.My php version was 7.0
sudo apt-get install php7.0-curl
sudo service apache2 restart
i got it from this link check here for more details
For Ubuntu:
add extension=php_curl.so to php.ini to enable, if necessary. Then sudo service apache2 restart
this is generally taken care of automatically, but there are situations - eg, in shared development environments - where it can become necessary to re-enable manually.
The thumbprint will match all three of these conditions:
Fatal Error on curl_init() call
in php_info, you will see the curl module author (indicating curl is installed and available)
also in php_info, you will see no curl config block (indicating curl wasn't loaded)
In my case, in Xubuntu, I had to install libcurl3 libcurl3-dev libraries. With this command everything worked:
sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl
Just adding my answer for the case where there are multiple versions of PHP installed in your system, and you are sure that you have already installed the php-curl package, and yet Apache is still giving you the same error.
curl_init() undefined even if php-curl is enabled in Php 7.
Had this problem but found the answer here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1116448/cannot-enable-php-curl-on-ubuntu-18-04-php-7-2
Had to:
sudo a2dismod php7.0
And:
sudo a2enmod php7.2
Then:
sudo service apache2 restart
This was after a system upgrade to next version of Ubuntu. All the other answers I found were stale, due to a bad cert apparently on the PPA most of them pointed out, but would probably not have worked anyway. The real issue was disabling the old versions of php, apparently.
Found the solution here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1116448/cannot-enable-php-curl-on-ubuntu-18-04-php-7-2
To fix this bug, I did:
In php.ini file, uncomment this line: extension=php_curl.dll
In php.ini file, uncomment this line: extension_dir = "ext"
I restarted NETBEANS, as I was using Built-in server
I got this error using PHP7 / Apache 2.4 on a windows platform. curl_init worked from CLI but not with Apache 2.4. I resolved it by adding LoadFile directives for libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll:
LoadFile "C:/path/to/Php7/libeay32.dll"
LoadFile "C:/path/to/Php7/ssleay32.dll"
LoadFile "C:/path/to/Php7/php7ts.dll"
LoadModule php7_module "C:/path/to/Php7/php7apache2_4.dll"
This answer is for https request:
Curl doesn't have built-in root certificates (like most modern browser do). You need to explicitly point it to a cacert.pem file:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, '/path/to/cert/file/cacert.pem');
Without this, curl cannot verify the certificate sent back via ssl. This same root certificate file can be used every time you use SSL in curl.
You can get the cacert.pem file here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html
Reference PHP cURL Not Working with HTTPS
Step 1 :
C:/(path to php folder)/php.ini
enable extension=php_curl.dll
(remove the ; at the end of the line)
Step 2 :
Add this to Apache/conf/httpd.conf (libeay32.dll, ssleay32.dll, libssh2.dll find directly in php7 folder)
# load curl and open ssl libraries
LoadFile "C:/(path to php folder)/libeay32.dll"
LoadFile "C:/(path to php folder)/ssleay32.dll"
LoadFile "C:/(path to php folder)/libssh2.dll"
On newer versions of PHP on Windows, like PHP 7.x, the corresponding configuration lines suggested on previous answers here, have changed. You need to uncomment (remove the ; at the beginning of the line) the following line:
extension_dir = "ext"
extension=curl
(Trying to get Curl working via PHP and Apache on Windows...)
I kept getting an error saying:
Call to undefined function 'curl_init()'
I made sure I had enabled curl with this line in my php.ini file:
extension=php_curl.dll
I made sure the extension_dir variable was being set properly, like this:
extension_dir = "ext"
I was doing everything everyone else said on the forums and curl was not showing up in my call to phpinfo(), and I kept getting that same error from above.
Finally I found out that Apache by default looks for php.ini in the C:\Windows folder. I had been changing php.ini in my PHP installation folder. Once I copied my php.ini into C:\Windows, everything worked.
Took me forever to figure that out, so thought I'd post in case it helps someone else.
For PHP 7 and Windows x64
libeay32.dll, libssh2.dll and ssleay32.dll should not be in apache/bin and should only exist in php directory and add php directory in system environment variable. This work for me.
Obvisouly in php.ini you should have enable php_curl.dll as well.
RusAlex answer is right in that for Apache you have to install and enable curl and restart your apache service:
sudo apt-get install php5-curl
sudo service apache2 restart
On my Ubuntu Server with nginx and php5-fpm I however ran into the following problem. I had to restart nginx and php5-fpm like so:
sudo service nginx restart
sudo service php5-fpm restart
But I had non-working php5-fpm processes hanging around, which apparently is a bug in ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/+bug/1242376
So I had to kill all idle php5-fpm processes to able to restart php5-fpm so that the curl module is actually loaded
sudo kill <Process Id of php5-fpm Process)
function curl_int();
cause server error,install sudo apt-get install php5-curl
restart apache2 server .. it will work like charm
For linux you can install it via
sudo apt-get install php5-curl
For Windows(removing the ;) from php.ini
;extension=php_curl.dll
Restart apache server.
On Ubuntu 18.04 these two commands solve my this problem.
sudo apt-get install php5.6-curl //install curl for php 5.6
sudo service apache2 restart //restart apache
Seems you haven't installed the Curl on your server.
Check the PHP version of your server and run the following command to install the curl.
sudo apt-get install php7.2-curl
Then restart the apache service by using the following command.
sudo service apache2 restart
Replace 7.2 with your PHP version.
I also faced this issue. My Operating system is Ubuntu 18.04 and my PHP version is PHP 7.2.
Here's how I solved it:
Install CURL on Ubuntu Server:
sudo apt-get install curl
Add the PHP CURL repository below to your sources list:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
Refresh your package database
sudo apt update
Install PHP-curl 7.2
sudo apt install php7.2-fpm php7.2-gd php7.2-curl php7.2-mysql php7.2-dev php7.2-cli php7.2-common php7.2-mbstring php7.2-intl php7.2-zip php7.2-bcmath
Restart Apache Server
sudo systemctl restart apache2
That's all.
I hope this helps
Yet another answer ...
If you land here in Oct 2020 because PHP on the command line (CLI) has stopped working, guess what ... some upgrades will move you to a different/newer version of PHP silently, without asking!
Run:
php --version and you might be surprised to see what version the CLI is running.
Then run:
ll /usr/bin/php and you might be surprised to see where this is linking to.
It's best to reference the SPECIFIC version of PHP you want when calling the PHP binary directly and not a symbolic link.
Example:
/usr/bin/php7.3 will give you the exact version you want. You can't trust /usr/bin/php or even just typing php because an upgrade might switch versions on you silently.
I have solved this issue in Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS and PHP Version 7.4.3
Update the package index:
sudo apt-get update
Install php7.4-curl deb package:
sudo apt-get install php7.4-curl
This worked for me with raspian:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install php-curl
finally:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
or:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
To install the last version of php-curl on Ubuntu, use this:
sudo apt-get install php-curl -y

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