Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

Check your php.ini file, on it, if you have this:

;extension=php_openssl.dll

change it to

extension=php_openssl.dll

After that, remember to restart Apache, either using any control panel that Appserver offers, or using the services windows on the control panel of the system.

Also be sure that php_openssl.dll is on a folder that the system can reach, many people use to solve the problem of dll location problems by copying them to C:\windows or C:\windows\system32. Although that shouldn't be necessary.

After that, execute a file with phpinfo and check that it's enabled.

I have read somewhere, can't pinpoint it, that some installation of that kind of wamps have more that one php.ini, but only one is really active, could it be that you have edited the wrong one?

The proper answer is to replace the line

;extension=php_openssl.dll

in the php.ini file with

extension=php_openssl.dll

If you cant find extension=php_openssl.dll in the php.ini file, then just simply append the following line to the file:

extension=php_openssl.dll

This should work!

I had a similar error with ssl for hours.

What worked for me was copying php\libeay32.dll, php\ssleay32.dll and php\ext\php_openssl.dll from the php directory to the Apache2.2\bin directory. Then restart apache.