Fopen() wont work from crontab

[Oliver Spiesshofer]

Hi,

I have a script that calls an fopen() on an external URL.
I can run the script from the server as an url fine.
When however the script should be run from crontab, it does not work.
I get

Warning: fopen(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration
in [php-file]

Warning: fopen(http://[url].xml): failed to open stream: no suitable
wrapper could be found in [php-file] on line 66
I have set allow_url_fopen On, but it still wont work. Any Idea what could
cause that?

thanks

Oliver

[Pedro Graca]

Oliver Spiesshofer wrote:

I can run the script from the server as an url fine.
When however the script should be run from crontab, it does not work.
I get

Warning: fopen(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration
in [php-file]

(snip)

On my system I have /two/ different php.ini files; one for apache and
the other for command-line.

apache: /etc/php4/apache/php.ini
cmd-line: /etc/php4/cgi/php.ini

On my system they both have "allow_url_fopen = On"

Try the command-line equivalent of phpinfo():

$ php -i | grep allow_url_fopen

HTH
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--= Size below 10001 bytes =--

[CountScubula]

Just a shot in the dark, but what user is the cron running under? try
running the cron under same user as apache.

--
Mike Bradley
http://www.gzentools.com -- free online php tools
"Oliver Spiesshofer" <ol****@email.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a script that calls an fopen() on an external URL.
I can run the script from the server as an url fine.
When however the script should be run from crontab, it does not work.
I get

Warning: fopen(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration
in [php-file]

Warning: fopen(http://[url].xml): failed to open stream: no suitable
wrapper could be found in [php-file] on line 66
I have set allow_url_fopen On, but it still wont work. Any Idea what could
cause that?

thanks

Oliver

[Oliver Spiesshofer]

thanks. this really helped me. I have two different also, which I did not
realize. I changed both and now it worked!

I am running gentoo linux. and the /etc/php directories contains two sub-
dirs, apache2-php4 and cli-php4 with each a php.ini

Oliver

Pedro Graca <he****@hotpop.com> wrote in
news:c0*************@ID-203069.news.uni-berlin.de:

On my system I have /two/ different php.ini files; one for apache and
the other for command-line.

apache: /etc/php4/apache/php.ini
cmd-line: /etc/php4/cgi/php.ini