API Issues

[Monotoko]

Hi Guys,

Getting quite fustrated, I have a page that is supposed to be accessing the API, the problem is I just keep hitting the 404 error page whenever I run it. It is the default example code from the authentication tutorial so it should be working!

For some reason the $result variable is just holding a "404 not found" page from my blog... (my blog is in the root folder, this script is in a directory named "cp")

Help?

<?

$whmusername = "root";
$whmpassword = "<snip>";

$query = "<snip>";

$curl = curl_init();		
# Create Curl Object
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,0);	
# Allow self-signed certs
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,0); 	
# Allow certs that do not match the hostname
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER,0);			
# Do not include header in output
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);	
# Return contents of transfer on curl_exec
$header[0] = "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($whmusername.":".$whmpassword) . "\n\r";
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);  
# set the username and password
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $query);			
# execute the query
$result = curl_exec($curl);
if ($result == false) {
	error_log("curl_exec threw error \"" . curl_error($curl) . "\" for $query");	
# log error if curl exec fails
}
curl_close($curl);

print $result;

?>

 

[cPanelDavidN]

Hi Monotoko,

I tried the following, which I cut and pasted from the authentication documentation, and with the proper values in those first three variables, it works just fine for me

<?php 
$whmusername = "root";
$whmpassword = "s3cr3t!";

$query = "https://10.1.1.1:2087/xml-api/version";

$curl = curl_init();		
# Create Curl Object
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,0);	
# Allow self-signed certs
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,0); 	
# Allow certs that do not match the hostname
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER,0);			
# Do not include header in output
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);	
# Return contents of transfer on curl_exec
$header[0] = "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($whmusername.":".$whmpassword) . "\n\r";
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);  
# set the username and password
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $query);			
# execute the query
$result = curl_exec($curl);
if ($result == false) {
	error_log("curl_exec threw error \"" . curl_error($curl) . "\" for $query");	
# log error if curl exec fails
}
curl_close($curl);

print $result;

Could you post the URL that you're attempting to make? The 404 error code is for malformed or non-existent URLs.

Regards,
-DavidN

PS. a side note, that documentation page has "\n\r" for the newline in the header auth string. I think it should be "\r\n" ie CR+LF. I ran the example with both, and for this simple script, it worked fine regardless. However, for integrity's sake, I'll ask Documentation to update it.