cURL extension

[KeithH]

Can anyone tell me how I enable the curl extension on my Bubba2? I can get as far as my /usr/ directory but I'm not sure where to go from there.

Many thanks Keith

[Cheeseboy]

Hi KeithH,

Please be a little more specific.
What is it exactly you are trying to do?
There is curl, libcurl, and then many packages to make them interact with other stuff...

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niklas@bubba2:~$ aptitude search curl
p   curl                                        - Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or FTP server         
v   curl-ssl                                    -                                                      
p   curlftpfs                                   - filesystem to access FTP hosts based on FUSE and cURL
p   gambas-gb-net-curl                          - The Gambas advanced networking component             
v   libcurl-dev                                 -                                                      
p   libcurl-ocaml                               - ocaml curl bindings                                  
p   libcurl-ocaml-dev                           - ocaml libcurl bindings                               
v   libcurl-ssl-dev                             -                                                      
i   libcurl3                                    - Multi-protocol file transfer library (OpenSSL)       
p   libcurl3-dbg                                - libcurl compiled with debug symbols                  
p   libcurl3-dev                                - Transitional package to libcurl3-openssl-dev         
i   libcurl3-gnutls                             - Multi-protocol file transfer library (GnuTLS)        
p   libcurl3-gnutls-dev                         - Development files and documentation for libcurl      
p   libcurl3-openssl-dev                        - Development files and documentation for libcurl      
v   libcurl4-dbg                                -                                                      
v   libcurl4-dev                                -                                                      
p   libcurl4-gnutls-dev                         - Development files and documentation for libcurl (GnuT
i   libcurl4-openssl-dev                        - Development files and documentation for libcurl (Open
p   liblua5.1-curl-dev                          - libcURL development files for the lua language versio
p   liblua5.1-curl0                             - libcURL bindings for the lua language version 5.1    
p   libwww-curl-perl                            - Perl bindings to libcurl                             
p   php4-curl                                   - CURL module for php4                                 
p   php5-curl                                   - CURL module for php5                                 
p   python-pycurl                               - Python bindings to libcurl                           
v   python2.3-pycurl                            -                                                      
v   python2.4-pycurl                            -                                                      
p   slang-curl                                  - transfer files using HTTP and FTP from S-Lang        
p   spl-curl                                    - SPL Programming Language -- curl adapter             
p   tclcurl                                     - Tcl bindings to libcurl                              
p   xmms2-plugin-curl                           - XMMS2 - curl transport for HTTP

Cheers,

Cheeseboy

[KeithH]

Hi Cheeseboy,

Yes it's me again. I've found another problem with placing fan page on facebook. When I call the php directly this is the report I get.


Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Facebook needs the CURL PHP extension.' in /home/web/FB2/admin/facebook.php:4 Stack trace: #0 /home/web/FB2/fanpage.php(3): require() #1 {main} thrown in /home/web/FB2/admin/facebook.php on line 4

Be really grateful if you can point me to the correct line to use.

Keith

[Cheeseboy]

Hi Keith,

As you know, I have no experience of your setup, but I would try:

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# apt-get install php5-curl

Cheers,

Cheeseboy

[KeithH]

Hi Cheesboy,

I only have one program on my bubba, that's this Fan Page program to make landing pages on my facebook. So I don't really have a setup using my fixed IP for access.

Anyway I have installed the curl as surgested, but I still get the same result as my previous post. I've also placed a simple test php file in the www folder I found on the net to test for the curl to see if its actualy there.

<?php
## Test if cURL is working ##
echo '<pre>';
var_dump(curl_version());
echo '</pre>';
?>

This came up with the following

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_version() in /home/web/testcurl.php on line 5

Does this mean I've not loaded it properly? Putty reported it had, and I rebooted the Bubba just in case it needed that.

Keith

[Cheeseboy]

Hi Keith,

I don't know much about php, and I don't like it (same goes for much of the web-shite).
Hence your problem has gone out of my scope, and has to be answered by someone else.

Sorry...

Cheeseboy

[carl]

Hello Keith,

Because the SAPI handling in the original php5 packages where too limited (we have different configuration for the apache5 and the fastcgi sapi), we decided to change the behavior in our packages; Though other upstream debian package will not adhere to this change, and will only install a "global" sapi configuration; What you need to do is under /etc/php5 enable the curl extension manually for the apache5 sapi; i.e.

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cp /etc/php5/conf.d/curl.ini /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/curl.ini

[KeithH]

Can you tell me what the extention should be placed after the cURL.ini file to make cURL active for http or a PHP program in the www folder