August 22, 2013
Chris
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How to install PHP curl extension (in 5 seconds)

It’s a common wordpress problem: PHP’s curl extension is not installed!
No need to mess around in config files etc, simply do a

sudo apt-get install curl php5-curl

to install the PHP curl extension, activated and ready to go (apache restarts automatically, if not, do so).

This article was written quite a while ago (9 years), please keep this in mind when using the information written here. Links, code and commands might be outdated or broken.

5 Comments

  • Saurav Singh
    April 15, 2015 8:54 am

    Hello
    Not working, I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, i am trying sudo apt-get install php5-curl and it respond already installed.
    But when i am trying to connect it shows cURL status OFF,
    Please help me

    Reply
  • mateh
    February 1, 2015 8:52 pm

    Where do i have to enter this code?

    Reply
  • bright
    June 20, 2014 7:47 pm

    I’m prompted to enter passphrase.
    Is that my windows password?

    Reply
  • Keith
    December 22, 2013 8:23 pm

    Handy tip, thank you. Installing on Ubuntu 13.10 desktop version, I found I did have to do a restart, though, using
    sudo service apache2 restart

    Reply

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