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Asked: 2026-05-16T06:34:38+00:00

I use following PHP function: file_get_contents(‘http://example.com’); Whenever I do this on a certain server,

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I use following PHP function:

file_get_contents('http://example.com');

Whenever I do this on a certain server, the result is empty. When I do it anywhere else, the result is whatever the page’s content may be. When I however, on the server where the result is empty, use the function locally – without accessing an external URL (file_get_contents('../simple/internal/path.html');), it does work.

Now, I am pretty sure it has something to do with a certain php.ini configuration. What I am however not sure about is, which one. Please help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The setting you are looking for is allow_url_fopen.

    You have two ways of getting around it without changing php.ini, one of them is to use fsockopen(), and the other is to use cURL.

    I recommend using cURL over file_get_contents() anyways, since it was built for this.

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