Comments on: URL File-Access is Disabled in the Server Configuration

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:08:12 +0000

Awesome! Exactly what I was looking for. Very easy to follow even for a novice! Thanks!

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:36:11 +0000

I get the following errors with fopen – is this realted? The same? Not entirely sure what to do…

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/XXXX/public_html/imincludes/newsRSS.php on line 73

Warning: fopen(http://uk.informanagement.com/rss/RssPage.aspx?command=RSS&nr=3&length=105&sjabloon=XXXXX) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/XXXX/public_html/imincludes/newsRSS.php on line 73
could not open XML input

By: Ivan

Ivan — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:49:44 +0000

Awesome, thanks so much

By: Drazsha

Drazsha — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:55:40 +0000

Thanks so much for posting (original article). My site suddenly disappeared one day and tech support was hopeless, so this really let me know exactly what was going on.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:59:16 +0000

I use the previous code to read in images and then process them. It will not work for PHP files (unless you want the output), but its great with any other binary data.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:45:50 +0000

Actually you can also use CURL. Here is a snippet that should help someone get started. Note: I just copy-pasted from my working code, so theres stuff you won’t need.

if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == “127.0.0.1″)
{
$filenameText = “http://”.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].”/crmascotas/functions/textToImage.php?text=”.$_GET['text'].”&fontname=$CRM_CONST[PolaroidTextFont]&size=$CRM_CONST[PolaroidTextSize]&bgcolor=efefef&fgcolor=000000″;
} else
{
$filenameText = “http://”.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].”/functions/textToImage.php?text=”.$_GET['text'].”&fontname=$CRM_CONST[PolaroidTextFont]&size=$CRM_CONST[PolaroidTextSize]&bgcolor=efefef&fgcolor=000000″;
}

$options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return web page
CURLOPT_HEADER => false, // don’t return headers
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, // follow redirects
CURLOPT_ENCODING => “”, // handle all encodings
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => “robs”, // who am i
CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true, // set referer on redirect
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on connect
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on response
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, // stop after 10 redirects
);

$ch = curl_init($filenameText);
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
$content = curl_exec( $ch );
$err = curl_errno( $ch );
$errmsg = curl_error( $ch );
$header = curl_getinfo( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

$header['errno'] = $err;
$header['errmsg'] = $errmsg;
$header['content'] = $content;

$text = imagecreatefromstring($header['content']);

By: rock

rock — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:23:29 +0000

Hi, I’m still unsure about how to implement the suggested best solution,

For example, I have 2 sites, A and B. A has the file that I want to reuse on B.

how do I write the include code for B using the best solution method?

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:44:26 +0000

I have always used relative URLs but went with absolute for a new website. Everything was fine until the web host turned allow_url_fopen off. A little (lot) of find and replace and I am back up and running. Thanks for pointing out the fix!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:54:54 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this. It was a dead-on fix. I do not host my website on my own servers so I didn’t know PHP had been upgraded so it caught me off guard. I was able to fix it quickly thanks to your article.

AWESOME!!!MJI

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:09:24 +0000

Thanks, this really helps!