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Owl
Owl

Reputation: 689

Curl followlocation not working on server

I have a script which is working fine on my xampp and deals with the follow location just fine.

But now I have transferred it to the server and it doesn't work. I'm just receiving the 301 moved permanently site. My cUrl looks like this:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $dir_url);

I have tried it with error reporting on:

error_reporting(E_ALL);

But it just doesn't output any errors...

Any ideas what it could be?

Edit:

//Start Curl Connection
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $dir_url);
//read content of $url
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
echo curl_error ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4028

Answers (2)

Owl
Owl

Reputation: 689

I think the problem was, that a open_basedir is set in the PHP settings.

I used the function from this blog post:

http://slopjong.de/2012/03/31/curl-follow-locations-with-safe_mode-enabled-or-open_basedir-set/

Now its working!

Upvotes: 1

Andrey Volk
Andrey Volk

Reputation: 3549

Some servers check for the existence of certain headers.
Probably Accept-Language is missing:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    'Accept-Language: en-us'
));

Or the referer:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $dir_url);

Upvotes: 1

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