Can't download new theme

  • Hello,

    I did a local installation of wordpress 4.0 and everything appears to be working correctly except I can’t install a new theme. Each time I try I get the following error message.

    “Download failed. There are no HTTP transports available which can complete the requested request.”

    On my local machine I have Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.4.6 installed and everything works perfectly.

    I’ve read all of the forum posts and can not find anything that helps.

    I would appreciate some assistance.

    Thanks

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  • Hi, I also experienced this issue. I was able to download new plugins, but when i tried to download any new themes I got the following error: “Download failed. There are no HTTP transports available which can complete the requested request.”

    I am using Apache2.4.1/mySql5.6.21/php5.6.2 served on my localhost.

    Anyways, this appears to be a PHP error and I was able to fix the issue by modifying my php.ini file.

    All of the help sites I went too said to uncomment the line: extension=php_curl.dll (this didn’t work)

    What they forget to mention is that you also need to uncomment the line:

    extension=php_openssl.dll

    As soon as I uncommented this line I was able to download themes.

    Don’t forget to save the file php.ini and restart your apache server after you make the change:)

    Good luck.

    where do i find the php.ini

    Download and extract the latest PHP zip file from https://php.net/downloads. Then, php.ini can be found in the root directory of the extracted folder.

    +1 @dhscott

    Setting both of these extensions in the php.ini file worked for me:
    extension=php_openssl.dll
    extension=php_curl.dll

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