PHP modules don't load after installing PHP 7 to my server

Question

I installed PHP 7 to my server (as a result, I have not /etc/php5 and /etc/php/7.0). When I run my web app, I cant see any of my previous CURL (or fork).

at first I got this err msg:

Message: Call to undefined function curl_init()

and after installing php7-curl i get it enabled - approved on info() function and this test code:

var_dump(_isCurl());
function _isCurl(){
    return function_exists('curl_version');
}

returning TRUE.

but when having an actual CURL in my code I get this error:

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/20151012/php_curl.dll' - /usr/lib/php/20151012/php_curl.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

in /usr/lib/php/20151012/ i have only .so files which doesn't make sense. (same goes for the /usr/lib/php5/20131226 folder). So what is it trying to get and why from there?

how can I configure my new php.ini file to get the previous model settings? (if possible with the enabled PCNTL_FORK too) How can I make it work with curl? what the hell happened???

EDIT 04.05.2016:

Ok, i decided to change it to curl.so and now got this msg PHP Warning: Module 'curl' already loaded in Unknown on line 0 and then I disabled it, and somehow, curl now is working (commented curl ;extension:curl.so and ;extension:php_curl.dll. What the hell.

Answer 1

I had this exact problem.

I have just spent the last few hours trying to fix some stuff and in my haste I for some reason enabled this line:

extension:php_curl.dll

Obviously, that makes 0 sense, as someone said but the error message is weird after you do that. Running apt-get dist-upgrade DID NOT solve the problem.

So, after pulling out some more hair and re-reading this post a 100 times, I just commented it back out

;extension:php_curl.dll

and ya, problem solved.

So the OP must have done what I did... drink beer while working

Answer 2

running apt-get dist-upgrade fixed all the problems :)