Question

My web hosting company recently upgraded to Apache 2.2.22 and PHP 5.3.13 and since then a piece of script will not work correctly. The webpage is a radio streamer and now the part that updates the track info from a text file does not display at all. The streamer is working fine and so are other third-party widgets.

Here is part of the script to display the album cover:

updateNowPlayingInfo = function() {
var d = new Date();
$.ajax( '/php_proxy_simple.php?url=playingnow.txt&_=' + d.getTime(), { 
    complete: function( jqXHR, textStatus) { console.log( 'RMX Player XHR completed: ' +textStatus ); },
    error: function( jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) { console.log( 'RMX Player XHR error:' + textStatus + ':' + errorThrown ); },
    xhr:  (window.ActiveXObject) ?
    function() {
            try {
                return new window.ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch(e) {}
        } :
        function() {
            return new window.XMLHttpRequest();
        }, 
    cache: true,
    type: 'GET',
    crossDomain: true,
    dataType: 'text',
    global: false, // @note was using false
    ifModified: true,
    success: function( data, textStatus, jqXHR ) {

        //alert( playingData );
        playingData =  data.split("\n");

        if ( playingData[2] && ! playingData[2].match( /no-image-no-ciu/ ) ) {
            //playingData[2] =  playingData[2].replace( 'SS110', 'AA280' ); // swap small image for medium
            //console.log( playingData[2] );
            playingData[2] =  playingData[2].replace( '_SL160_', '_SX200_' ); // swap small image for large
            $( "#nowplaying_album_cover img" ).attr( "src" ,  playingData[2] );
            $( "#nowplaying_album_cover").show();
            }
         else $( "#nowplaying_album_cover").attr("src" , playingData[2] );
         $( "#nowplaying_album_cover").show();
        },
    failure: function() { alert('failed to get play data') ; }
} );

And the php code:

    <?php
// PHP Proxy example for Yahoo! Web services. 
// Responds to both HTTP GET and POST requests

// Allowed hostname
define ('HOSTNAME', 'http://www.mysite.co/');

// Get the REST call path from the AJAX application
// Is it a POST or a GET?
ini_set( 'error_reporting', 0);
$path = ($_POST['url']) ? $_POST['url'] : $_GET['url'];
$url = HOSTNAME.$path.'?timestamp=' . time();

// Open the Curl session
$session = curl_init($url);

// If it's a POST, put the POST data in the body
if ($_POST['url']) {
    $postvars = '';
    while ($element = current($_POST)) {
        $postvars .= urlencode(key($_POST)).'='.urlencode($element).'&';
        next($_POST);
    }
    curl_setopt ($session, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt ($session, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postvars);
}

// Don't return HTTP headers. Do return the contents of the call
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Make the call
$response = curl_exec($session);

// possibly include expires header to bust aggresive caching  -expires=>’+1s’
header('Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8');

echo $response;
curl_close($session);

?>

I grabbed this from the raw log files:

“GET /playingnow.txt HTTP/1.1” 304

Not sure if that is relevant. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

Fixed it, the file permission for the PHP file needed to be at 0644. Thanks.