How can I enable cURL for an installed Ubuntu LAMP stack?

Question

I have installed the Ubuntu LAMP stack. But cURL is not enabled, and neither can I can find the extension listed in the INI file. I added it manually, but it didn't work either.

How should I enable cURL then?

Gobelin

sudo apt-get install php5-curl Though you should address this question to serverfault – Sclerite

The above didn't worked out too – Gobelin

Answer found here too: askubuntu.com/questions/9293/how-do-i-install-curl-in-php5 – Exposure

Answer 1

From Install Curl Extension for PHP in Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install php5-curl

After installing libcurl, you should restart the web server with one of the following commands,

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

or

sudo service apache2 restart

Saintly

@Arsheep "didn't worked" is exceedingly unhelpful. Did it give you an error? Did your computer explode? Did your house burst into flames? – Homunculus

No errors and no flames man , it installed successfully i restarted Apache and retried the curl code But the same error again " Call to undefined function curl_init() " – Gobelin

@leonbloy - okay i saw phpinfo() too only one "curl" word i can found in "Additional .ini files parsed - curl.ini". Does that mean something ? – Gobelin

same was happen with me , i have installed php-curl again – Tardigrade

sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get install -y php5-curl – Fainthearted

You only need to install php5-curl... The rest aren't required to enable curl in PHP. I also didn't have to restart Apache for the change to take effect. – Theobald

@Theobald restart is done automatically by the installation routine of apt/aptitude – Mcclellan

This answer is old, for example ubunto 14.10 now changes the libcurl3 dependencies to libcur4. Here's what I used successfully (it also pulled in a few more dependencies as this was a first-time install for me): sudo apt-get install curl libcurl4-openssl-dev php5-curl php5-cli – Miserere

After sudo apt-get install php5-curl, I had to create a symbolic link in /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d : ln -s ../../mods-available/curl.ini 20-curl.ini – Oleomargarine

On Ubuntu 16.04 the command is now sudo apt-get install php-curl – Immunochemistry

On PHP 7, use sudo apt-get install php-curl instead of sudo apt-get install php5-curl. – Eleventh

Answer 2

You only have to install the php5-curl library. You can do this by running

sudo apt-get install php5-curl

Click here for more information.

Atherton

@EdC In my opinion this is a better answer than the accepted, because it's enough to install php5-curl, no need for the others. – Elasmobranch

This is the better answer... simpler and there is no need to restart the webserver because apt-get does it for you – Vezza

Additionally, you'd need to restart Apache after this command using sudo service apache2 restart – Waddington

@Vezza I just tried, and you MUST restart the web server after using the command in order for it to work. – Waddington

Correct, an apache restart is required... FYI you could also enter: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart (instead of 'sudo service apache2 restart) ... though this alternative method I mention requires that your directory is unchanged as it specifies a static path. I use the one mentioned by Yazin – Glandulous

Answer 3

Try:

sudo apt-get install php-curl

It worked on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) LTS, with lamp-server and php7. I tried with php7-curl - it didn't work and also didn't work with php5-curl.

Terrapin

This work perfectly fine with me. I'm using PHP7 but I used the command without the version number and it worked super fine. Thanks. – Grassquit

Answer 4

For those who are trying to install php-curl on PHP 7, it will result in an error. Actually if you are installing php-curl in PHP 7, the package name should be;

sudo apt-get install php-curl

Not php5-curl or php7-curl, just php-curl.

Standup

Answer 5

First thing to do: Check for the PHP version your machine is running.

Command Line: php -version

This will show something like this (in my case):

PHP 7.0.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 (cli) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group

If you are using PHP 5.x.x => run command: sudo apt-get install php5-curl

If PHP 7.x.x => run command (in my case): sudo apt-get install php7.0-curl

Enable this extension by running:

sudo gedit /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini

And in the file "php.ini" search for keyword "curl" to find this line below and change it from

;extension=php_curl.dll

To:

extension=php_curl.dll

Next, save your file "php.ini".

Finally, in your command line, restart your server by running: sudo service apache2 restart.

Cainozoic

Answer 6

I tried most of the previous answers, but it didn’t work for my machine, Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver), but what worked for me was this.

First: check your PHP version

$ php -version

Second: add your PHP version to the command. Mine was:

  $ sudo apt-get install php7.2-curl

Lastly, restart the Apache server:

sudo service apache2 restart

Although most persons claimed that it not necessary to restart Apache :)

Hesketh

Not need to specify the php version, just use: sudo apt-get install php-curl and sudo service apache2 restart – Rightwards

Answer 7

Fire the below command. It gives a list of modules.

 sudo apt-cache search php5-

Then fire the below command with the module name to be installed:

 sudo apt-get install name of the module

For reference, see How To Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack on Ubuntu.

Fascist

Answer 8

You don't have to give version numbers. Just run:

sudo apt-get install php-curl

It worked for me. Don't forgot to restart the server:

sudo service apache2 restart

Demimonde

Answer 9

Try this:

sudo apt-get install -y curl

Zoan

Answer 10

Well for does of you who are using PHP 8.x above and Centos OS 7 you can install the php extension by running this command yum search php81- or php80 then search for ea-php81-php-curl.x86_64 or ea-php80-php-curl.x86_64

After that run: yum install ea-php81-php-curl.x86_64 to install the extension. This will also restarted the apache server along side the installation.

Hope this help solve your problem!

Wilfordwilfred