I am trying to set up a cURL script to automatically post info to a form i have on my site. I get a 403 error when running the script.
Initially i put the curl script in my html directory so i could just type and run the script. During my 1st attempt my cgi setting was
that of course didnt work. I recieved the error:
Couldn't resolve host '
2nd attempt was
then i got this error:
403 forbidden
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server.
my cgi path is /var/
what am i doing wrong?
The php cURL script is below:
Initially i put the curl script in my html directory so i could just type and run the script. During my 1st attempt my cgi setting was
Code:
// Path on that server to the CGI
$cgi = '[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mysite.com/';[/URL]that of course didnt work. I recieved the error:
Couldn't resolve host '
2nd attempt was
Code:
// Path on that server to the CGI
$cgi = '/cgi-bin/';then i got this error:
403 forbidden
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server.
my cgi path is /var/
what am i doing wrong?
The php cURL script is below:
Code:
<?php
/*
There are two fundamental ways for PHP to send data to another
CGI via the POST-method: CURL and fopen.
Where CURL is the easier of the two, fopen is more commonly available.
Check the output of phpinfo() to see whether CURL is available on your system.
*/
/*
This method uses CURL to contact the server.
*/
// Either 'http' or 'https'. 'https' is only an option if OpenSSH
// is available on your system. Check phpinfo() to see whether
// HTTPS is available.
$HTTP_method = 'http';
// IP-resolvable FQDN of the server
$hostname = '[URL unfurl="true"]www.mysite.com';[/URL]
// Path on that server to the CGI
$cgi = '/cgi-bin/';
// Array of data. The foreach loop below is going to construct a field/data
// string like the one you see in the URL of a GET-method CGI.
$my_data = array (
'dbType' => 'mysql',
'dbHost' => 'localhost',
'dbUser' => 'memb',
'dbPass' => 'okay',
'dbName' => 'memb_com_-_sy',
'dbPrefix' => 'mel_',
'dbPersistent' => 'false',
'syPath' => '/var/[URL unfurl="true"]www/html/userz/mel/',[/URL]
'uploadPath' => 'uploads/',
'syHTTPPath' => '/userz/mel/',
'templatePath' => 'templates/',
'uploadHTTPPath' => 'uploads/',
'baseURL' => '[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mysite.com/userz/mel/',[/URL]
'autodetect_baseURL' => 'false', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'indexFile' => 'index.php',
'user' => 'mel',
'pass' => 'thanks',
'realname' => 'mel', //should get from signup p h p
'email' => 'michaelldemery@hotmail.com', //should get from signup p h p
'want_mail' => 'true', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'allowSubscriptions' => 'true', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'blogTitle' => 'John Does personal blog',
'blogDescription' => 'My little place on the web...',
'lang' => '', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'lang_content_negotiation' => 'false', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'fetchLimit' => '15', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'useGzip' => 'true', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'wysiwyg' => 'false', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'XHTML11' => 'false', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'enablePopup' => 'false', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'embed' => 'false',
'top_as_links' => 'false', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'blockReferer' => ',',
'rewrite' => 'array()', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'serverOffsetHours' => '0', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'showFutureEntries' => 'false', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'magick' => 'false', //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
'convert' => '/usr/local/bin/convert',
'thumbSuffix' => 'syThumb',
'thumbSize' => '110' //dont know if true should have quotes around it it doesnt in config file
);
// This section constructs the field/value pairs of the form
// field1=value1&field2=value2&field3=value3
$data_string = '';
$add_ampersand = FALSE;
foreach ($my_data as $key => $value)
{
if ($add_ampersand)
{
$data_string .= '&';
}
$data_string .= $key . '=' . $value;
$add_ampersand = TRUE;
}
// Get a CURL handle
$curl_handle = curl_init ();
// Tell CURL the URL of the CGI
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, $HTTP_method . '://' . $hostname . $cgi);
// This section sets various options. See [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php[/URL]
// for more details
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
// Perform the POST and get the data returned by the server.
$result = curl_exec ($curl_handle) or die ('There has been an error');
// Close the CURL handle
curl_close ($curl_handle);
// Process the return
print $result;