check that apache is doing name resolution?? stab in the dark there.
can you do includes from other locations using names?
dns on the Ip address that apache/php is sitting on resolving correctly?
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 11:20 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [PHP] Unable to use fopen to read a URL - DNS Problem?
>
>
>This is a repost.
>
>To summarise: My installtion of PHP is unable to resolve names. I can't use
>fopen
> to open a URL which uses a name, but if I manually calculate
>the IP
> address, I can read in the page OK. ( see example below ).
>
>I need some tips on where to start looking to solve this problem.
>
>If it helps, my config options when I built PHP were:
>
>--with-gd=/usr/local/src/gd-1.8.4/
>--enable-gd-imgstrttf
>--with-ttf=/usr/local/freetype/
>--enable-calendar
>--disable-short-tags
>--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/
>--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/src/jpeg-6b/
>--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs
>
>and I am running PHP 4.0.4pl1 under Debian "Potato" Linux and Apache 1.3
>
>Regs
>
>Brian White
>
>At 16:28 14/08/2001 +1000, Brian White wrote:
>>The following code:
>>
>> $url = "http://www.php.net/";;
>> print ( implode( "", file( $url ) ));
>>
>>causes my browser to sit and twiddle it's thumbs for ages and then produce:
>>
>> Warning: file("http://www.php.net/";) - Bad file descriptor in
>> myfile.php on line 33
>>
>> Warning: Bad arguments to implode() in myfile.php on line 33
>>
>>If, however, I explictly use the IP address:
>>
>> $url = "http://208.247.106.187/";;
>> print ( implode( "", file( $url ) ));
>>
>>it will successfully dump a copy of the php front page.
>>
>>This says to me that PHP can't resolve names. It is not a problem
>>with the linux box it's running on, given that I ran "ping www.php.net"
>>on that particular box to find the IP address.
>>
>>Can anyone tell me what I need to do to make it work?
>>
>>Regs
>>
>>Brian White
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>>Brian White
>>Step Two Designs Pty Ltd - SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy
>>Phone: +612-93197901
>>Web: http://www.steptwo.com.au/
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