PHP Curl with Curlopt_Followlocation Error

php curl with CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION error

The error means safe_mode or open_basedir ARE enabled (probably open_basedir) you probably can't override either if your host has any decent security settings.

So you have a choice

1) change host (not really desirable I imagine)

2) use a function similar to ones found on the php curl_setopt page, i.e. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php#95027

The following is a fixed version of the function specified in point 2

function curl_redirect_exec($ch, &$redirects, $curlopt_header = false) {
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    $data = curl_exec($ch);

    $http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    if ($http_code == 301 || $http_code == 302) {
        list($header) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $data, 2);

        $matches = array();
        preg_match("/(Location:|URI:)[^(\n)]*/", $header, $matches);
        $url = trim(str_replace($matches[1], "", $matches[0]));

        $url_parsed = parse_url($url);
        if (isset($url_parsed)) {
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
            $redirects++;
            return curl_redirect_exec($ch, $redirects, $curlopt_header);
        }
    }

    if ($curlopt_header) {
        return $data;
    } else {
        list(, $body) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $data, 2);
        return $body;
    }
}

CURL error (CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated)

See this comment in the manual. It provides an ugly workaround. I believe this restriction is effect because of a bug in the curl library where it would follow redirects to local resources, but that should be fixed by now, so I see no reason for this restriction.

CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated

Set safe_mode = Off in your php.ini file (it's usually in /etc/ on the server). If that's already off, then look around for the open_basedir stuff in the php.ini file, and change it accordingly.

Basically, the follow location option has been disabled as a security measure, but PHP's built-in security features are usually more annoying than secure. In fact, safe_mode is deprecated in PHP 5.3.

cURL Error when using CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION

This is because your setup has either safe mode or open_basedir settings in the php.ini.

You need to change these settings in the php.ini to do this.

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