cURL extension is disabled on your server

Posted on December 21, 2015

I have a plugin installed on my wordpress website that is not working and it’s saying “cURL extension is disabled on your server.”

Could someone please help me out with this? I really understand absolutely nothing about coding or anything about DigitalHost. I paid someone to transfer my website from Godaddy to here. So I ask that you guys who are willing to help me out to please tell me step by step, since I possess absolutely no knowledge about anything. Thank you all so very much in advance.

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Yash Jain

May 27, 2018

That doesn’t do it. Also I have php7. What is the latest trick?

MarianoDiazMiranda

November 14, 2018

On your terminal or SSH Session, Run the updated command:

sudo apt-get install php-curl

This will pull curl for the latest PHP version. (If you’re not running the latest php, I don’t believe this will work for you)

Type Y to accept the warning that additional disk space will be used and press return on your keyboard. Then once installed as jschween advised, go ahead and restart apache2 to ensure it loads the curl module.

sudo service apache2 restart

Test your module/plugin/script to see if it can properly use curl now.

Good Luck!

Jon Schwenn

January 15, 2016

Hey there,

What you’re most likely looking for is sudo apt-get install php5-curl. You’ll want to restart Apache after installing curl - sudo service apache2 restart.

After that you should be set!

Thank you and please let us know if there is anything else we can do for you.

Happy coding,

Jon Schwenn Platform Support Specialist DigitalOcean