composer not install in windows 7

Question

I already uncommented in php.ini:

[PHP]

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
 ; About php.ini ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

;extension=php_oci8_11g.dll
extension=php_openssl.dll
;extension=php_pdo_firebird.dll

Variables of the system set ok.

PHP version 5.4.16:

  C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.16\php.exe

Add to System path variable:

  C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin

But, recive this error:

Some settings on your machine make Composer unable to work properly.
Make sure that you fix the issues listed below and run this script again:

The openssl extension is missing, which means that secure HTTPS transfers are
impossible. If possible you should enable it or recompile php with --with-openssl

I'm using:

• windows 7
• Wamp
• php 5.1.16
• apache 2.4.4

How solve this problem, please help me.

Answer 1

I figured it out and successfully installed Composer in My windows 10 PC.

I am sharing two solutions here.

There are some steps you have to follow in order to solve your problem.

1st solution.

1. Find and Open php.ini located in your "php" folder In my case it is in xampp the file is in c:\xampp\php\
2. Find "extension=php_openssl.dll"
3. ";extension=php_openssl.dll" uncomment by removing the semicolon ";"
4. Restart your xampp , now extension should be loaded after that.
5. Try again now you are able to install composer.

2nd solution(If the above solution not work for you then go with below solution . )

This works in my case

1. Find and Open php.ini located in your "php" folder In my case it is in xampp the file is in c:\xampp\php\
2. Open SHELL from Xampp start panel by clicking on shell button.
3. Write php in shell and hit enter
4. If you get some waring message in your shell something like below .

5. Then you have to fix these waring message by commenting all these extension in your php.ini file.(Actually cause of these warning messages are because more than one time these extensions are enabled but you can un-comment it in php.ini file for solving the issue).

   For Example which is in my case.

   a). You can see in above image there is warning message for curl.

   Module 'curl' already loaded in Unknown on line 0 .
   

   b) To fix this find php_curl.dll file in your php.ini file and comment that extension by adding semicolon ";" in front of that extension like this ;extension=php_curl.dll

Follow above steps if you have more than one warning for each extension untill you are not getting any warning message in your shell.

6. Restart your xampp , now extension should be loaded after that.
7. Try again now you are able to install composer.

Hope I can solve your issue .

That's all folks . Happy coding !!! (amitamie.com) :-) ;-)

Answer 2

I have battled this several times. And this is the best solution I have found.

As mentioned, you need to ensure that extension=php_openssl.dll is enabled but doing just that sometimes may not resolve the error.

You should check that you have PHP on your path variable then see what INI file is loaded by typing php --ini in the console it should give you something like:

Configuration File (php.ini) Path: C:\WINDOWS
Loaded Configuration File:         C:\WINDOWS\php.ini
Scan for additional .ini files in: (none)
Additional .ini files parsed:      (none)

Make sure you are enabling the settings in the correct ini file. If you dont have an ini file loaded put an ini file from the php directory into c:\windows.

Also important I find it helps to change the extension_dir flag to an absolute path from relative to makesure the system can find php_opensll.dll.

To do this uncomment the line starting extension_dir and change it to match from the drive root.

Example: C:\php\ext instead of ext/