[pmwiki-users] SOLVED Re: problem with rss feeds, external feeds

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 01:27:41PM -0500, Russ Fink wrote:
> Followup - problem solved for me.  The provider looked at the problem, and 
> enabled allow_url_fopen.  My pages work now.
> 
> I had tried the .htaccess trick he mentioned, and even did some @ini_set 
> w/in pmwiki, but that didn't work because he didn't enable overrides in the 
> apache or PHP.ini configuration (I don't know which).  Well, now he enabled 
> overrides and enabled the url_fopen thing.  Problem solved.
> 
> In other news, if anyone needs a good low cost hosting provider that /now/ 
> supports PmWiki, check out www.angryhosting.com.  

Just to complete the email record (for anyone who may be looking at
this later) -- PmWik itself doesn't require fopen(), it's only
certain recipes (e.g., PmFeed and GoogleMapAPI) and features
(automatic blocklist downloads) that use it.

> Would anyone mind if I added a HostingProviders page to pmwiki.org?  I would 
> include a disclaimer that PmWiki neither endorses nor condemns any of the 
> listed providers, but is just anecdotal evidence of what some people have 
> found to work.

There was already a page started long ago for this
(http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PmwikiFriendlyHosting)
but I think it's somewhat out of date.  And it could probably
stand to be renamed to something better.  HostingProviders sounds
good to me.

I'd also like people to put dates by any reviews/recommendations
on that page, because I've had a lot of experience with good
providers going bad (often after being bought out by another
group, or when they decide to spring a totally new infrastructure
on unsuspecting victims^H^H^H^H^H^H^H  ...clients.

Pm


> >
> >AllowOverride is definitely enabled.
> >
> >You're in luck, though. Looks like PHP addressed the concerns of hosts 
> >everywhere in 5.2 and created another restriction (allow_url_include) which 
> >is /really/ what we wanted anyways. I've re-enabled allow_url_fopen and 
> >disabled allow_url_include. Since all of the scripts use include/require 
> >and not fopen to 'include' pages, this should work out fine.
> >
> >Matt Bloom
> >
> >>>From: Matt Bloom
> >>>To: Russ Fink <russfink at hotmail.com>
> >>>Subject: Re: problem with rss feeds, external feeds
> >>>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:13:36 -0800
> >>>
> >>>You can create a .htaccess file with the following line in it to enable 
> >>>remote fopen in the directory of the wiki:
> >>>
> >>>php_value allow_url_fopen on
> >>>
> >>>Give that a try.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>
> >>>Matt Bloom
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Russ Fink wrote:
> >>>>Assuming this is the problem, would you be willing to disable that 
> >>>>feature for my site, allowing remote fopen?
> >>>>
> 
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