I know this question is all over the place on this site, but all the solutions haven't worked with me.

I get this error when running composer install:

In Factory.php line 650:

  The openssl extension is required for SSL/TLS protection 
  but is not available. If you can not enable the openssl
  extension, you can disable this error, at your own risk, 
  by setting the 'disable-tls' option to true.

I don't know where it's getting Factory.php from but it's not in my project directory.

I did all the proposed solutions. I renamed my PHP's php.ini-development file to php.ini, and uncommented the following:

extension=openssl

And since I'm on windows, this too:

extension_dir = "ext"

I have also enabled SSL through Laragon menu > Apache > SSL > Enable

My php.ini file is located in my laragon folder like this:

C:\laragon\bin\php\PHP7\php.ini

Then I noticed something: when I right-click on Laragon for the menu and go to php.ini, it says no php.ini file located (even though it's in the right spot.) As seen in