Including an external page

[turbohost]

Hi Guys,

Got an annoying problem. I want to include an external page via include but I get a 404 on the html page. There is no problem with the external to be included file because I can open it in my browser without a problem. When I place this external file on my website I can include it without a problem. Only when I try to include the file when it is located at another website I get a 404 on my webpage ... I don't have a clue what could be causing this ...

Turbo

[eelixduppy]

Windows versions of PHP prior to PHP 4.3.0 do not support accessing remote files via this function, even if allow_url_fopen is enabled.

I'm just assuming some things here. Let me know if I'm wrong about your PHP version or OS. For more information view include [us3.php.net]

[turbohost]

Hi eelixduppy,

Thanks for your fast reply ... I'm running php 4.4.2 on RedHat Enterprise 4 ...

[eelixduppy]

Well...my next action would be to check to see if allow_url_fopen [us3.php.net] is enabled. This has to be changed in the php.ini file.

[turbohost]

allow orl fopen is 'on' ...

Can I only include php files?

[eelixduppy]

It works with other types of text files also. Do you want to use the info in the file as code or just as text? Maybe you could use file_get_contents [us2.php.net]?

[frozenpeas]

Is the include statement in a file on one server and the file to be included on another?

[turbohost]

Fixed the problem ... the external file didn't give a http 200 header. This way, I could load it with my browser but not via include. Thanks for your help guys.

Turbo

[eelixduppy]

No problem--although i didn't really help with the solution :) ...I'm glad you got it!