Enabling SSL Support for PHP Sockets

Published: 2012-05-21 20:00:41 Reading time: 1 minutes Category: System

When using PHP sockets to access SSL, you may encounter the following error:

Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

I found a method for configuring Apache on Windows and am sharing it here:

  1. Stop the Apache service.

  2. Locate libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll in the PHP installation directory and copy them to the bin directory under the Apache installation directory.

  3. Edit the PHP configuration file php.ini, find the line ;extension=php_openssl.dll and remove the semicolon at the beginning; if this line doesn't exist, add a line extension=php_openssl.dll.

  4. Start the Apache service.