I needed a way to have a custom CRM built off of V-Tiger/SugarCRM on my local intranet. Mostly for a couple of us to setup and interact with our daily repetetive functions and to help keep us on the same page.
Logging in from outside became important to me but security risks were a major concern with regard to our coveted client information and other sensitive data.
SSH TUNNEL
After researching a bit I combined some research and tested it on my local setup. I took the following steps to configure cURL in XAMPP on my WindowsXP SP3 machine.
For current php version
1. Open xampp location/apache/bin/php.ini
2. Uncomment the following line in the “Windows Extensions” section: extension=php_curl.dll
3. Restart apache
For all versions of php you have to enable the php_curl.dll extension for the following files...
1. your xampp location/apache/bin/php.ini
2. your xampp location/php/php5.ini
3. your xampp location/php/php.ini
4. your xampp location/php/php4/php.ini
5. your xampp location/php/php4/php4.ini
6. Restart apache
