How to enable PHP's openssl extension to install Composer?

Question

I am trying to install Laravel in WAMP setup. I am getting a warning message for not enabling openssl which I had already done in WAMP.

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Answer 1

If you compiled from source, then adding extension=php_openssl.dll to the php.ini file may not work.

To troubleshoot this, open a command prompt and type php -i. Scroll up to the first line, it will tell you the most recent error regarding your php.ini file.

To solve the issue, find the php_openssl.dll file, for me it was in the very same directory of the compilation output: C:\php-sdk\bin\phpdev\vc14\x64\php-7.0.13-src\x64\Release_TS So just add the directory where the extension is, to the php.ini:

extension_dir = "C:\php-sdk\bin\phpdev\vc14\x64\php-7.0.13-src\x64\Release_TS"

Hopefully the error will be gone