Function file() not working out of the box on several linux distribution

[jon.berg@gmail.com]

I have a problem getting the file() function in PHP to work on several
linux distributions, for example fedora core 3.

For example file('http://someurl.com/') do not return the content of
that page.

This is when I use the version of Apache and PHP that comes with the
operating system. When I compile Apache and PHP from source it works.
Is there some configuration that can be done so it will work? I need to
make it work on a server where I can not recompile from the source of
Apache and PHP.

Jon Berg.

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: Function file() not working out of the box on several linux distribution

jon.berg@gmail. com wrote:[color=blue]
> For example file('http://someurl.com/') do not return the content of
> that page.
>[/color]

Does file() work when requesting "http://www.google.com/"? Then the site you
are probing requires more headers (e.g. user-agent, cookies) than the file()
function provides by default. Try opening the site in FireFox with the
LiveHeaders extension installed and check the received headers.

It is also possible that some boxes simply do not have access to the site,
in which case the configuration of the machine hosting the site should be
modified.


JW

[Andy Hassall]

Re: Function file() not working out of the box on several linux distribution

On 24 Jun 2005 07:16:23 -0700, jon.berg@gmail. com wrote:
[color=blue]
>I have a problem getting the file() function in PHP to work on several
>linux distributions, for example fedora core 3.
>
>For example file('http://someurl.com/') do not return the content of
>that page.
>
>This is when I use the version of Apache and PHP that comes with the
>operating system. When I compile Apache and PHP from source it works.
>Is there some configuration that can be done so it will work? I need to
>make it work on a server where I can not recompile from the source of
>Apache and PHP.[/color]

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php#ini.allow-url-fopen

Unless:

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/configure.php#configure.disable-url-fopen-wrapper

... was used at compile time.

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