phpssliis-6fsockopen

Socket transport "ssl" in PHP not enabled


I'm having trouble enabling the socket transport "ssl" in PHP. When I run my script, I get the error:

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://www.my.site.com:443 (Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?)

I'm running IIS6 on Windows and this is what I've done so far to try to get it working:

I've restarted IIS after pretty much every change, but I haven't had any luck. Is there anything obvious that I'm doing wrong? Is there anyway to troubleshoot this in smaller parts? (So I can figure out the problem by the process of elimination...?)

Unfortunately Windows/IIS aren't my area of expertise--I've been put in charge because nobody else seems to know anything.


Solution

  • Success!

    After checking the log files and making sure the permissions on php_openssl.dll were correct, I googled the warning and found more things to try.

    So I:

    I'm not sure which of these fixed my problem, but it's definately fixed now! :)

    I found these things to try on this page: http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.extensions.php

    Thanks for your help!