Accessing WHM via PHP - php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed

[azoundria]

Warning: file(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home/ismywebs/public_html/access.php on line 4

Warning: file(http://...@ismywebsite.com:2086): failed to open stream: Success in /home/ismywebs/public_html/access.php on line 4

This error has been bugging me for just short of a month! Originally I discovered it in a script for a free hosting manager (I am trying to build a free host). I isolated the exact code that is attempting to access the WHM below:

<?php
$file = file("http://user:pass@@ismywebsite.com:2086");
print_r($file);
?>

It doesn't work. Yet when I go to http://userass@ismywebsite.com:2086 myself I can access it fine. To fully test that file() is working on the server -with URLs - I created:

<?php
$file = file("http://www.ismywebsite.com/");
print_r($file);
$file = file("http://user:pass@ismywebsite.com:2086");
print_r($file);
?>

Try it at http://www.ismywebsite.com/access.php

The contents of my site display perfectly but the WHM is still inaccessible.

Please help me. This is the biggest roadblock I have ever faced in the development of my free host dream and please don't let it fail. Thanks a lot for your time and help.

[djbob2]

Why not use cURL instead of file? If you don't have that library, just use the fsock library. The file functions don't work so well for http-type things, and might break from weird characters of authentication methods.

[azoundria]

This line was originally in a script for the Free Host Manager from http://www.fhm-script.com/ using file_get_contents() instead - which returns the same error.

It appears no others have these errors. And I do not know how to create CPanel accounts on my own - so I would need to use a ready-made script for that.

But maybe I can update the entire code to use fsock instead of file() if it works. What code would I use to do what I am trying to do above?

$fp = fsockopen("user:pass@ismywebsite.com", 2086, $errno, $errstr);

Like that? Then what?

[bpat1434]

To read information you'd use something like

$fp = fsockopen('www.imywebsite.com', 2086, $errno, $errstr, 30);
$html = '';

while(!feof($fp))
  $html .= fread($fp, 1024);

At that point, everything that WHM would output is put into the $html variable. In order to send headers and stuff, you'd have to use the fputs() function to send information to the server.

[azoundria]

Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home/ismywebs/public_html/access.php on line 7

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to www.imywebsite.com:2086 in /home/ismywebs/public_html/access.php on line 7

Warning: feof(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/ismywebs/public_html/access.php on line 10

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/ismywebs/public_html/access.php on line 11

Still not working...

[azoundria]

Please help me...

[jvanv8]

I have a similar / same problem. You can repeat this by using SOAP cURL, file_get_contents, etc. Some servers are ok for me (yahoo.com is ok, but google.com does not load - I get a Hostway underconstruction page)

Any fixes. Is this a DNS resolution problem?