PHP: fopen failure question

Junior WebHelper Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 49

Hi, I have a site where according to phpinfo(), fopen_url is enabled at both the local and master levels. However, fopen isn't working anywhere on my site today and I haven't touched the code. Here's a test page that I created:

<?php

$h = fopen("http://www.php.net","r");
if ($h)
{ print "The file exists!"; }
else
{ print "The file does not exist"; }

?>

and when I ran it the results were like this:

Warning: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /web/sites/112/slevy/www.preservestaffnow.org/fopen_test.php on line 3

Warning: fopen("http://www.php.net", "r") - Bad file descriptor in /web/sites/112/slevy/www.preservestaffnow.org/fopen_test.php on line 3
The file does not exist

So, does anybody have any ideas as to why I would get these error messages if fopen_url is enabled? Or, can the phpinfo() be providing results that no longer reflect the current configuration?

Any thoughts you might have to share I'd greatly appreciate.

-- php4ever

p.s. fsockopen is also not working at my site.

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 6:27 pm (22 years, 3 months ago)

I don't think that php follows http redirects...so you may have to type the full url, i.e. $h = fopen('http://www.php.net/index.php');

not sure though.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Adam, how is this a redirect? If you go to http://www.php.net, you're not going to be redirected to http://www.php.net/index.php. However, you may need to add a trailing slash...

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2003 6:40 pm (22 years, 3 months ago)

that's what I was getting at, I added index.php for good measure.

Junior WebHelper Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 49

As it turns out, I was getting the bizarre error messages b/c apparently
the web server and/or database server where my site is hosted was
having problems.

Thankfully the problems are now gone. Very Happy

And, when I run the above script,
it runs fine despite my neglecting to add that trailing slash. However,
maybe it should be included. I noticed that almost everyone contributing
notes on php.net's documentation of fopen includes it when referring to urls with terminations like .net, .com, etc.

-- php4ever