Running Magento on Wamp Error CURL or MCRPYT

There are various PHP configuration issues I encountered when I tried to install Magento locally on a WAMP server. Mostly I got an error saying "PHP Extension "curl" must be loaded" in the installation page.

Not knowing what CURL is I went digging. The below 3 steps fixed it.

• Edit the apache/conf/httpd.conf file: Uncomment or remove # in front of

 #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so 

• Edit the apache/bin/php.ini file: Uncomment or remove ; in front of

;extension=php_mcrypt.dll

and

;extension=php_curl.dll

Thats it, it fixed it for me. Magento remains to be one of the most complicated CMS I have ever encountered for no apparent reason.