[RESOLVED] windows 2000, apache 2, php 4 falies to open online files

oran

Hi,
I'v installed a server on my computer to develop my site.
When I try to read online files (google.com, for example) with, for example, file_get_contents I get this msg (from windows):
Code:
php.exe has genereted errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program.

and this one from apache (as HTML):
Code:
Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, oran@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

I couldn't find any log file.

The exact code that I tried to run is:
php:
$contents = file_get_contents("http://www.google.com/search?q=dog");

Any have any idea how can I solve this problem??

tnx,
Oran.

Houdini

What does you php.ini say about file uploads?

oran

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; File Uploads ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Whether to allow HTTP file uploads.
file_uploads = On

; Temporary directory for HTTP uploaded files (will use system default if not
; specified).
;upload_tmp_dir =

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 2M

Houdini

Is fopen also enabled?

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; File Uploads ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Whether to allow HTTP file uploads.
file_uploads = On

; Temporary directory for HTTP uploaded files (will use system default if not
; specified).
upload_tmp_dir = "C:\Program Files\xampp\tmp"

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 16M


;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Fopen wrappers ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Whether to allow the treatment of URLs (like http:// or ftp://) as files.
allow_url_fopen = On

oran

yep

Houdini

Well that is all I could think of since I use Apache. Have you tried to read or open files from your own site or server and been able to use them or do you get the same errors?

oran

amm.. no there is no problem with local files.

bradgrafelman

Looks like you're using the CGI binary.

Might I suggest installing PHP as an ISAPI module, rather than the .exe?

oran

How can I do that?

oran

ok, i did that. (http://il2.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.apache2.php)

It's not helping. Now apache is the one that failes.

Houdini

You might just want to download and install XAMPP, it will properly set up your server within 10 minutes of download with the latest PHP MySQL phpMyadmin also Perl and mysqlite. Plus you can switch between PHP 4 and five (you get two php versions). If you just say yes to all the defaults you will be writing code 15 minutes after you download the package instead of tweaking around iwth conf and php.ini files you'll be writing code. XAMPP I set up IIS and didn't like it then manually set up Apache php 3x and an older MySQL and it was a big hassle even with reference material (took a couple of days aggravation), then when newer Apache as well as newer version of PHP came out I found XAMPP and have used it ever since.

oran

ok! It's working now!
thanks!!

bradgrafelman

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