fopen, and a Remote Server

[Masna]

I'm trying to get the contents of a file on a remote server, with fopen. I get these errors:

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home/eboard/public_html/mqa/main.php on line 353

Warning: fopen(http://www.mysqlquickadmin.com/version.php?do=get_updates&version=1.1) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/eboard/public_html/mqa/main.php on line 353

Anyone?

[Drakla]

What version of php are you running? They broke 4.4.2 so I had to get the latest RC release from snaps.php.net to fix it. 5.1.4 is fine.

Also check if allow_url_fopen is set to On in with phpinfo();

[Masna]

I'm running 5.1.4.

[MarkR]

Have you tried fetching that page on the production server from the command line with (for example) wget?

If you cannot fetch pages from that host at all, it's possible that your network administrator has configured a block on outgoing http requests, or the sysadmin has made a config error.

Try it from the command line first, and if that works, maybe PHP is at fault. But if you can't do it from the shell, forget it.

Mark