php_hostconnect problem

[chrisw669]

When I call the following script ::

$filename = "

http://www.mydomain.com/index.html";

$fd = fopen ($filename, "r"
$contents = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));
fclose ($fd);
echo $contents;

I get ::
Warning: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /web/holden/fread.php on line 4
........

But when I change the script to ::

$filename = "index.html";
$fd = fopen ($filename, "r"
$contents = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));
fclose ($fd);
echo $contents;

it works???

I'm running PHP4.0.6/Apache on a RS/6000 AIX4.3.3
I've set file perms to 777 on all files and dirs.
Is there something in php.ini to config or am I
doing something else wrong???

thanks

 

[spookie]

hi chrisw669 ,

the filename in this case sould be either relative path or the path of ur root of linux and not according to ur web server.

so if ur php page is in directory say php and the file ur reading is in html dir at the same level then
$filename = "../html/index.html"


cheers

spookie

 

[chrisw669]

I follow what your saying but in the past (on a different server anyways) i've been able to open

http://www.php.net/index.php

and now i can't. it give me the same error that i ran locally. the only thing i can figure is that it's a config problem. just don't know where to look.