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tri1976

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Registered: 2009-09-07

Posts: 152

curl_init error with lighttpd

curl in a php script used to work before but after some update it stopped working.  It gave me the following fatal error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init()

php_info show curl is installed and enabled

cURL support	enabled
cURL Information	7.40.0
Age	3
Features
AsynchDNS	Yes
CharConv	No
Debug	No
GSS-Negotiate	No
IDN	Yes
IPv6	Yes
krb4	No
Largefile	Yes
libz	Yes
NTLM	Yes
NTLMWB	Yes
SPNEGO	Yes
SSL	Yes
SSPI	No
TLS-SRP	Yes
Protocols	dict, file, ftp, ftps, gopher, http, https, imap, imaps, pop3, pop3s, rtsp, scp, sftp, smb, smbs, smtp, smtps, telnet, tftp
Host	x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
SSL Version	OpenSSL/1.0.2
ZLib Version	1.2.8
libSSH Version	libssh2/1.4.3

php -m

[PHP Modules]
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
ereg
fileinfo
filter
ftp
gd
gettext
hash
json
libxml
mbstring
mcrypt
mhash
mysql
mysqli
mysqlnd
openssl
pcntl
pcre
PDO
readline
Reflection
session
SimpleXML
soap
SPL
standard
tokenizer
XCache
XCache Cacher
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter
zip
zlib

[Zend Modules]
XCache
XCache Cacher

php.ini (just the line related to curl)

extension=curl.so

Can someone help me with this issue?

Thanks.

Last edited by tri1976 (2015-02-09 11:37:09)

frank604

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From: BC, Canada

Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 1,218

Re: curl_init error with lighttpd

As a sanity check, can you show output of

php -m

just to see the curl module is there.  Also, what is your /etc/php/php.ini
I certainly don't know much about this but thought these would help get more info.

tri1976

Member

Registered: 2009-09-07

Posts: 152

Re: curl_init error with lighttpd

@frank604 thanks for your help.  I have edited the original post with additional information that you asked for.  This problem has driven me crazy in the last few days and can't figure out why ... hope you can spot something.  Also, curl work on command line.

frank604

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From: BC, Canada

Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 1,218

Re: curl_init error with lighttpd

Sorry I can't provide much help. Is there any journalctl entries from lighttd? or anything in lighttpd's logs? Another approach would be to take a look at pacman's logs and see which package upgrade caused this issue.  Then you can try downgrading them.
Alternatively test curl in a simple php to see if it works?

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
?>
<b>Success!</b>

tri1976

Member

Registered: 2009-09-07

Posts: 152

Re: curl_init error with lighttpd

@frank604 Thanks for the attempt.  curl_init is what giving me the fatal error.  Nothing helpful from the log files.  I rolled back a few version and no luck.  I don't exactly know when it got broken so don't really know how far to rollback.  Besides if the package has problem, I'd expect to find something on google or see more people having problem.