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"PHP Upgraded on the freeola servers"

Just a quick announcement that PHP 4 has been upgraded on the Freeola Webservers to version 4.4.8, this should not impact on the use of the servers as is basically a security and bugfix update to the version that was already on the servers.

As ever if you are experiencing issues on the servers, you can post here or place a support ticket at http://freeola.com/support/request/ for us to investigate.

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.

Does freeola allow access to remote servers?

I am building a Twitter tool that requires access to their API (port 80 at http://twitter.com) but when I run it from on my freeola hosted site I get an error stating "connection denied".

It works fine from my home network, so my first thought is that the problem is caused by a firewall. Can anyone confirm/deny my hunch?

If remote connections are not allowed, I'll have to move my site.

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.

Right.. thank you for pointing that out. I'll have to look up how to fix that now *chuckles*

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.

Hmmm... wrote:
fsockopen()
> successfully in the past? Doing a search on these forums I'm not
> sure if that function was available?
>
>
> Search Freeola
> Chat

Yes it was working fine until the PHP upgrade.

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

Can't help much I'm afraid, but...

Are you sure the problem is at your Freeola site end?
From the errors you've posted (to me) it looks like the problem could be with the remote site.


Sorry I couldn't help more, hopefully someone who's familiar with vbulletin will be along soon.

Have you been using fsockopen() successfully in the past? Doing a search on these forums I'm not sure if that function was available?


Search Freeola Chat

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?

Ah now I see where you mean.

This has been passed to the Web Content guys and has now been amended :)