I guess this thread will answer your question.

You're probably on a server that has its outbound connections blocked.  It seems you can try asking to be moved to a server that'll let you though.

Eccles wrote:
> Disable PHP functions on our severs are proc_open , popen ,
> disk_free_space , diskfreespace , leak , exec, shell_exec,
> system and passthru so fsockopen() should work. However your SQL
> is broken as stated by MySQL Error   : Unknown column
> 'r.feed_forum' in 'on clause' so you will need to sort that
> first. Check the Mysql table 'r' for a field called feed_forum
> and you'll find it doesn't exist.

Ok seems that was an unrelated error to a package I tried to install when the standard rss feeds stoped working.  I've removed the package and no longer getting that error. I'm still just getting this:

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to gameon.libsyn.com:80 in /includes/class_rss_poster.php on line 95

Warning: Unable to fetch RSS Feed in /includes/class_rss_poster.php on line 223

MMORPG.COM Podcast Unable to open URL or no data returned

Which goes back to my original query.  I emailed support and I'm just being told that freeola doesn't allow connections to remote servers, so guess I'll just have to do w/o rss feeds.

Disable PHP functions on our severs are proc_open , popen , disk_free_space , diskfreespace , leak , exec, shell_exec, system and passthru so fsockopen() should work. However your SQL is broken as stated by MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'r.feed_forum' in 'on clause' so you will need to sort that first. Check the Mysql table 'r' for a field called feed_forum and you'll find it doesn't exist.

That was my initial thought, however it's any RSS feed I attempt to run, and it appears to have coincided with the php upgrade.  I'm still looking into it, however a few things I've read over suggest that I need fsockopen to be able to connect to
remote servers.

Some further info:

Invalid SQL:
select r.*, f.title from rssfeed r left join forum f on(f.forumid = r.feed_forum) order by r.feed_name;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'r.feed_forum' in 'on clause'
Error Number  : 1054
Date          : Friday, January 18th 2008 @ 09:48:02 AM
Script        : http://www.mindseyetheater.ukgamers.net/vbforum/admincp/ffrss.php?
Referrer      : http://www.mindseyetheater.ukgamers.net/vbforum/admincp/index.php?do=nav
IP Address    : ************
Username      : ************
Classname     : vb_database
MySQL Version : 5.0.45-log

I've lost all RSS functionality with vBulletin:


RSS Poster Robot

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to www.next-gen.biz:80 in /includes/class_rss_poster.php on line 95

Warning: Unable to fetch RSS Feed in /includes/class_rss_poster.php on line 223

Next Generation News Unable to open URL or no data returned


Any suggestions?

Morning, I'm still getting:

"...Like HTML pages, all files are uploaded into your 'htdocs' directory.

Freeola's servers currently support PHP 4.3.7."

PHP Essentials: http://freeola.com/support/webspace_php.php





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Thanks for that.

NB. The PHP Essentials page still mentions PHP 4.3.7








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Thanks for the update :¬)

I don't use a lot of php, but the bits I use still seem to work!

<EDIT>
It might be worth mentioning again that you are also running PHP5 for the PHP users amongst us ?!?
<EDIT2> Unless I've lost the plot - Freeola are currently running both PHP4 and 5. I've just checked the PHP Essentials help page and can't seem to find it any info on this.

Sorry if this is just me ;¬)  I've had a closer look and found it!




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