allow_url_fopen?

Aikon

I just moved to a new web hotel and my phps doesn't work any more. They stop at fopen with a No such file or directory error.

Is allow_url_fopen disabled? How can I check (don't know where php.ini is)?

If so WHY is it disabled? The default is enabled according to php.net....

Is there a work-around, or have I just wasted one year worth of useless web space on this hotel? 🙁

Aikon

phpinfo says:

Configuration
PHP Core
Directive Local Value Master Value
allow_url_fopen
no value no value

Does this mean it is ON or OFF? Probably ON, since it is the default. Then what can the problem be?

PHP is running in Safe Mode, BTW, but as far as I can see from php.net this does not limit remote fopen().

Aikon

Maybe this isn't a newbie question... or maybe it is just too simple, from the lack of response! 🙂

Anyway, "no value" in allow_url_fopen must mean it is off, because I can set it on with the ini_set function:

ini_set ("allow_url_fopen", "1");

This works, but instead of the error message the

$file = fopen ($url, "r");

now ABORT the script without ANY error messages whatsoever. 🙁

Could it be a Safe Mode issue anyway? But that would be just insanely paranoid to prohibit to open a remote url! It is no security risk for the server at all. 😕

I also tried to put

php_value allow_url_fopen 1

in .htaccess but that gave a Server Error when opening the php.