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Im new to Amazon Ec2 and I'm 'NOT AN EXPERT', after I installed my word-press blog I found that Facebook comments of users are disabled, May be because I need to enable PhP Curl on the server (Im guessing). I need a help on how to do that please, and I would really appreciate if you explain it in details so I can help my self as a beginner. I really appreciate your help :) Im Mac user AMI: bitnami-wordpress-3.3-2-linux-x64-ubuntu-10.04-ebs (ami-6938ed00)

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i had no experience in using Amazon EC2, but in Debian based Linux distro, if you have root access via SSH, you can just do apt-get install php5-curl – planet x Mar 15 '12 at 7:50

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You can install PHP-curl using the command

sudo apt-get install php5-curl

Also you may have to enable it in php.ini if it is commented using ;(semicolon) in it.

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Normally, it's enabled upon installation. – Roman Newaza Mar 15 '12 at 10:39
Well you are right, but that will depend on bitnami-wordpress ami whether they have played with curl or not. – Nitin Kumar Mar 15 '12 at 10:50
Never tried that. That's why I said normally)) – Roman Newaza Mar 15 '12 at 10:53
I usually start with a fress ami for amazon ec2 server and hence it starts automatically. But in case you are using other's ami, it may have issues with it. – Nitin Kumar Mar 15 '12 at 10:57
Yea, could be anything... Any distro has its own setup – Roman Newaza Mar 15 '12 at 10:58
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BitNami WordPress uses it owns PHP version which already includes curl (not the ubuntu PHP). If you run /opt/bitnami/php/bin/php -m you will see curl in the list of modules loaded.

sudo apt-get install php5-curl would install curl in the system php which is not the php that is using your WordPress installation (from BitNami).

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