"Gateway PayPal Express Checkout requires cURL to be installed on your server" e

By error, I mean the red notification message that always showing on top of m WordPress admin page,, Screenshot:

PS: The same error existed before i added “https” support to the web server.

You are missing the CURL php extension.

Hey edwinyzh, that error’s happening because the version of PHP installed on your Ubuntu 16.04 server doesn’t have the curl extension.

Did you install PHP yourself on the server? If so, how’d you do it? If you can provide that information someone (maybe even me!) might be able to give you additional instructions on how to update your version of PHP with curl.

The curl extension is what PHP (and therefore WordPress, and therefore WooCommerce) uses to communicate with some third party payment Gateways (and other, HTTP(S) based web services). A lot of WooCommerce will work without it, but when it comes time to accept payments you may run into trouble.

Hello, sorry I did not pointed out that, php-curl has been installed already, and I tried just now, here is the output:

root@linode2:~# apt-get install -y php-curl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
php-curl is already the newest version (1:7.0+35ubuntu6).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

Well, try to call a CURL function from PHP and you should it it’s broken ?? The report cannot lie – it does function_exists check.

WooCommerce Gateway PayPal Express Checkout requires cURL to be installed on your server

How to solve this?

@hirenpatel007
Its necessary to edit the php configuration file and possible reboot the server. This sort of work is usually carried out by your host’s tech support team. Can you put in a support call to your host.

while using in local host what are the changes in config.php file?

Sorry, outside my comfort zone now. What about option 2 here:
https://www.tomjepson.co.uk/enabling-curl-in-php-php-ini-wamp-xamp-ubuntu/

If you don’t fix it, might be better starting a new thread just for that. Other forum members are unlikely to see this old thread.