cPanel, CURL and curl_exec to self issue

[InteractM]

Hi,

I have moved site from another server running PLEKS to the server with cPanel. Both servers have installed PHP 5.2.17 with CURL support but after site move to cPanel site is crashing on curl_exec to "self" (part of the web site with blog CMS).

Code for that part looks like:

							# INSTANTIATE CURL.
							$curl = curl_init();

							# CURL SETTINGS.
							curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.mydomain.com/news/index.php?tempskin=_rss2");
							curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
							curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 0);

							# GRAB THE XML FILE.
							$xmlData = curl_exec($curl);

							curl_close($curl);

							# SET UP XML OBJECT.
							$xmlObjData = simplexml_load_string( $xmlData );

							$tempCounter = 0;

							foreach ( $xmlObjData->channel->item as $item )
							{                    
								# DISPLAY ONLY 10 ITEMS.
								if ( $tempCounter < 10 )
								{
									echo "<li><a href=\"{$item -> link}\">{$item -> title}</a></li>
							";
								}

								$tempCounter += 1;
							}

							 ?>

Any clue why cPanel server can't handle that?

PS.
EasyApache profile details returns that:

CurlSSL
This option will make the following changes to your profile prior to the build:

Disables:
Curl

Thanks

 

[InteractM]

Well, it looks like cPanel is blocking CURL connection to "self". curl_error returns

string(24) "couldn't connect to host"

Any clue?

 

[InteractM]

Also wget http://www.mydomain.com/news/index.php?tempskin=_rss2 doesn't work as should.

 

[quietFinn]

Are you using ModSecurity?

 

[InteractM]

Nope. Should I?

 

[quietFinn]

Nope. Should I?

I meant that ModSecurity might block those requests.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

Is this a specific PHP application that you are using, or is it a custom-developed script?

Thank you.

 

[InteractM]

It is custom developed but simple pull for XML. As far wget is making connection failure it is not a script issue, because http://www.mydomain.com/news/index.php?tempskin=_rss2 is available through the browser.

Also when I will do cURL connection to google.com (or something not on my cPanel installation) I'm able to execute cURL.

 

[InteractM]

After digging through server configuration as well firewall got it solved with creating a loopback NAT.

 

[cPanelMichael]

After digging through server configuration as well firewall got it solved with creating a loopback NAT.

I am happy to hear you were able to resolve the issue. Thank you for sharing the solution with us.