most likely cURL is not enabled in your php installation.
try creating a blank php page with the following code on it:
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors','on');
$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.webassist.com/");
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 90);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "");
$result = curl_exec($c);
if(!curl_errno($c)){
$info = curl_getinfo($c);
echo 'Took ' . $info['total_time'] . ' seconds to send a request to ' . $info['url'];
} else {
echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($c);
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
My guess is that you will get an error saying the function cURL init is not defined.
if that is the case, you will need to enable cURL in the php.ini.
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