PHPBB under IIS. Gmail. TLS missing.

rogersmithiii

I am setting up the PHPBB forum software under PHP running on IIS6 on a Windows 2003 server. When I set up PHPBB to contact the Gmail pop server, I get the following error:

E-mail error
» EMAIL/SMTP
/bbsforum/ucp.php

Could not connect to smtp host : 0 : Unable to find the socket transport "tls" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /includes/functions_messenger.php on line 835: fsockopen() [<a href='function.fsockopen'>function.fsockopen</a>]: unable to connect to tls://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Unable to find the socket transport "tls" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?)

We're running IIS6 under Windows 2003 Server, so how do we enable TLS? I read something about having to compile PHP in OpenSSL, but this seems to apply to Linux or Unix, and I have no clue how to do this, or install this in Windows.

I did uncomment the openssl line in the PHP.ini file in the Windows directory, but this didn't do it.

Can someone please tell me how do you enable TLS in PHP in IIS?

Thanks

Rog

bradgrafelman

Moved to Install forum.

rogersmithiii wrote:
PHP.ini file in the Windows directory

But php.ini shouldn't be in your Windows directory... it should be left where it was: inside the main PHP installation directory.

To make sure IIS is reading that .ini file, add the PHPRC environment variable to your system. Also, make sure you added the main PHP directory to your system's PATH environment variable. Don't forget to reboot the system after changing either of those. More information on how to do this can be found in a sticky in this forum.

rogersmithiii

I know how to add the PHP directory to the Windows path (which I did), but how do you add the environmental variable? Where do you do this, and what do you add?

BTW, the particular set of instructions that I was using to install PHP suggested putting the INI file in the Windows directory. Looks like they got this wrong.

Thanks so much,

Rog

bradgrafelman

Yeah.. anytime instructions say to move a file outside of the PHP directory, they've instantly lost all confidence from me.

You add the PHPRC environment variable on the same screen where you edit the PATH variable: Control Panel -> System -> Advanced tab -> Environment Variables button, click "New" under System variables, use PHPRC as the Variable name and the path to your main PHP installation directory for the value (e.g. c:
php) as this is where you should place your php.ini file.