PHP unable to load php_curl.dll extension

Question

Follow-up from my post yesterday (Enabling cURL with PHP)

The problem is that PHP isn\'t able to load php_curl.dll. I\'ve tried several steps including uncommenting

Answer 1

After having tried everything here I had to simply upgrade Apache to a newer version in order to make curl extension work.

I was upgrading PHP from 7.0.2 to 7.1.15 after which curl did not work. Only way to fix it was upgrade Apache (which was version 2.4.18) to the latest 2.4.29.

Didn't have to copy any of the lib/ssleay dll files to either Apache or Windows - possibly because I already have the PHP folder in my system path.

Running Windows 10, 64-bit, thread-safe versions, VC14.