Comments on: Curl: Location redirect while open_basedir is set

By: Olaf

Olaf — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:51:55 +0000

Hello Alex, great that it works this way!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:33:53 +0000

Works nicely on my shared hosting with open_basedir enabled! Luckily, my +open_basedir path includes my ‘home’ directory, so I placed the CURL script there and called it from my web-page as described in this article.

By: Rocky Mountain Rock Star web design

Rocky Mountain Rock Star web design — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:43:55 +0000

Excellent tutorial. Saved to my del.icio.us bookmarks

By: Olaf

Olaf — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:46:13 +0000

Hello Jim,

I removed your code and pointed you to the forum.
I’m sure I can help
Actually you need to ask your provider if he will help you as explained in this tutorial (he need to add some open_basedir directory where the script has to be executed).

You say that you’re not a php programmer, I hope you’re able to edit the code? See you at the forum…

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:30:46 +0000

Hi Olaf,

Note: I am not a PHP programmer, and I am trying to help out my brother that is a Realtor, that has an IDX real estate search for his website and a separate hosting provider.

I just read your interesting post: Curl: Location redirect while open_basedir is set
I am having that main problem with a host provider that will not do anything.
Do you have any type of workaround for this problem when the hosting provider sets their server as follows for security issues?
What this is, is a Real Estate IDX company that provides a script that can make the real estate searches appear to be hosted on the Realtor’s website.
Is there another way of doing it so the pages could all look like they are coming from the Realtor’s website and not the IDX company.

Note the IDX company allows you to point to a custom directory at the Realtor’s website. But, because the script is using the curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); // required for many of the IDX pages This is when it hangs up.

This is from the hosting provider when I told them about the problem.

From Hosting Company

I have investigated this issue at our end.

This is not a issue at the server.

The script cloakURL.php cannot get execute when Open_basedir has been enabled in the server.

Openbase_dir cannot be disabled as this is a security feature in the server.

You will have to contact the application developer to resolve this issue as this is a issue related with the code in file cloakURL.php.

They don\’t want to Open_basedir disable. Here is the message I get when trying to execute the script.
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/hiswebsite/public_html/cloakURL.php on line 98

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