Dazed

Hey guys!

I had an issue yesterday with my dedicated site. My phpbb forum was running slow as hell. I sent in a trouble ticket but my server load was .02 some something seemed strange.

Anyway after the admins looked at it, they determined my database needed to be optimized and also one of my links was forwarding to a domain that would not resolve.
I started to look into it because that did not make sense. I have not had any changes to my site in a few months and it has run fine.

So what I did find was on my forum, I removed the below statement I had and the forum loaded with no problem.

<?php include("http://www.guitaristworks.com/ranking.php?mode=spotlight&quota[]=2&quota[]=3&row_template=new_row.tpl"); ?>

You can cut and paste the url into a browser and it will load fine. I have used this for 2-3 years with no problem. Any ideas?

I am still seeing a few other issues as well. In my forum I was using my own smtp info for post replies. I get the below error:

Could not connect to smtp host : 110 : Connection timed out
DEBUG MODE
Line : 113
File : smtp.php

I disabled my server information and am now using the default forum smtp. Why is mine no longer working?

In my error logs I am seeing the below. Per support, allow_url_fopen is enabled. What is going on with my site!! If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it.

[15-Jul-2007 16:34:46] PHP Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to www.guitaristworks.com:80 in /home/guitaris/public_html/include/snoopy/Snoopy.class.php on line 1150
[15-Jul-2007 16:33:51] PHP Fatal error: Smarty error: [plugin] unable to fetch: Connection timed out (110) in /home/guitaris/public_html/include/smarty/libs/Smarty.class.php on line 1095

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Dazed

Update:

It would appear that for whatever reason I am not allowed to use Fetch or Include as shown below. I have been using these for years. Any ideas?

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Dazed

ok scratch the above. I ended up having to move to a new host.

I have a billing question now. When I cancel my account in the middle of the month, is my bill pro-rated and will I get a credit for the remaining days?

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Geoff

I dont know about your billing question

but for your original problem, f_url_open or whatever its called is often disabled with most hosts (including surpass), as it can present a security issue (allowing people to run remote php exploits)

Had you used

<?php include("/ranking.php?mode=spotlight&quota[]=2&quota[]=3&row_template=new_row.tpl"); ?>

instead of

<?php include("http://www.guitaristworks.com/ranking.php?mode=spotlight&quota[]=2&quota[]=3&row_template=new_row.tpl"); ?>

You probably wouldnt have had any issue

As for the smtp issue, most (if not all) hosts disable open relayinig, and many more require something called POP before SMTP, meaning you need to be logged into a POP3 session in order to use the SMTP server, which insists that the account sending the email exists. I think sendmail was the prefered method of sending mail in such a manner? not sure about that though lol.

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Geoff Ellis - Surpass Dedicated Server Customer
www.adepttechs.net

Dazed

yeah absolute paths may have worked but I used those paths for 2-3 years so I could not understand why they just stopped working. Good info for the future

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