Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Call to undefined function curl_init() on windows

Reason: Curl is not enabled by default.

Steps:
1. uncomment the following line from your php.ini (remove the ';')
;extension=php_curl.dll

location of php.in
apache\bin

program: xampplite.

ps: there's another one under /php/folder BUT THAT IS PHP5.ini
/php/php5.ini

Call to undefined function curl_init() on windows

Reason: Curl is not enabled by default.

Steps:
1. uncomment the following line from your php.ini (remove the ';')
;extension=php_curl.dll

location of php.in
apache\bin

program: xampplite.

ps: there's another one under /php/folder
/php/php5.ini

Friday, November 2, 2007

Creating a Virtual Host in Apache (Windows)

1. Open file 'httpd-vhosts.conf' file
\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf

2. Uncomment/add the following line:
NameVirtualHost *:80

3. Add the following code:
<virtualhost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
DocumentRoot "E:/XAMPP/htdocs/mysitefolder"
</virtualhost>


note: replace the path in red with your path

4. Configure 'hosts' file
\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

127.0.0.1 www.example.com

4. Restart xammp.

5. Try typing "www.example.com" in your browser!! :) ?