I am using drupal 5.4 and PHP 5.1.6

My web host has open_basedir set (for "security reasons") and I cannot unset it. In a previous thread it had been mentioned to just comment out the line which sets CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION. I tried that but am unable to access the feed I am trying to get to (feeds.feedburner.com/Blogvortexdna) presumably because it relies on a redirection. The error I get is "Network is unreachable".

Is there another existing way to follow the redirection?

Any other suggestions on how to get around this problem? Is it unreasonable that the web host is setting open_basedir?

Thanks
-Greg

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Ashraf Amayreh’s picture

Ashraf Amayreh commented
Assigned: Unassigned » Ashraf Amayreh
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

First of all, I'm assuming you type the full URL, if not, make sure to use the full URL like below:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Blogvortexdna

If this does not work, you might be facing a DNS problem, try this URL for a change, it's the same, but without using a domain name.

http://66.150.96.119/Blogvortexdna

The problem is not redirection as far as I can tell.

gbrown5878’s picture

gbrown5878 commented

You're absolutely right. I got a small curl case working and ran into the same problem and couldn't access that IP address at all. I re-contacted my web hosts support and it turns out they had blocked the IP address. Grrr...

Thanks for the help!