Question

I’m trying to execute a straightforward PHP call to load the contents of a web page:
$result = file_get_contents("http://www.google.com");

The result coming back is a strange file not found error:
Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.google.com): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/test.php on line 5

I have “allow_url_fopen = On” on my php.ini and no .htaccess files that might alter the setting in the directory. Any ideas? I’ve never had trouble with this function before on different servers.

Answer 1

Apparently the HTTP stream wrapper is not present, which causes this error.

print_r(stream_get_wrappers());

Array
(
    [0] => php
    [1] => file
    [2] => data
    [3] => compress.zlib
)

I’m not sure how it was removed or how to restore it, but that would explain it! I’ve tried stream_wrapper_restore(‘http’) in case it was unregistered somehow, but that has no effect.