PHP can't open file with fopen under Windows Vista

Hi,

I have a problem with Apache/PHP under Windows Vista. I have been
using the XAMPP package containing Apache and PHP for years on my
local PC. I develop some of my internet pages in PHP to include some
routine stuff, and afterwards run a PHP script which opens the
PHP-files like a browser would do, i.e.
fopen("http://localhost/myfile.php", "r"), and saves it as
myfile.html. Then I publish the HTML-file.

With Windows Vista this does not work. I can open PHP-files in my
browser locally, and they open fine, with all the includes. I can even
open files with fopen on the internet using my script. That works
fine, too. But when I try to open the local file via http: on
localhost, the script waits until the timeout comes. Apache does not
answer.

I have been trying for hours.

- PHP is set to allow_url_fopen.

- PHP is not running in safe mode.

- I switched of the user access control (UAC) of Vista. No success.

- I changed the user access rights to the local directory which hosts
the files to full access for administrator, the current user, even for
everybody. No success.

- The files are located in the document root. No tricky subdirectory
or redirect.

- I did the tests as a normal user and as an adminstrator.

And now, I'm running out of ideas what more I could try.

Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance.

Rainer Klueting, Stuttgart

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:27:19 +0200, Rainer Klueting
<rainer@klueting.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a problem with Apache/PHP under Windows Vista. I have been
>using the XAMPP package containing Apache and PHP for years on my
>local PC. I develop some of my internet pages in PHP to include some
>routine stuff, and afterwards run a PHP script which opens the
>PHP-files like a browser would do, i.e.
>fopen("http://localhost/myfile.php", "r"), and saves it as
>myfile.html. Then I publish the HTML-file.
>
>With Windows Vista this does not work. I can open PHP-files in my
>browser locally, and they open fine, with all the includes. I can even
>open files with fopen on the internet using my script. That works
>fine, too. But when I try to open the local file via http: on
>localhost, the script waits until the timeout comes. Apache does not
>answer.
>
>I have been trying for hours.
>
>- PHP is set to allow_url_fopen.
>
>- PHP is not running in safe mode.
>
>- I switched of the user access control (UAC) of Vista. No success.
>
>- I changed the user access rights to the local directory which hosts
>the files to full access for administrator, the current user, even for
>everybody. No success.
>
>- The files are located in the document root. No tricky subdirectory
>or redirect.
>
>- I did the tests as a normal user and as an adminstrator.
>
>And now, I'm running out of ideas what more I could try.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Rainer Klueting, Stuttgart

Just a few:
Any messages in the Apache access- and error logs?
Any messages in the system event logs?
Is the Apache service running?
Something with MS Firewall going on?
Any changes to your
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\etc\hosts file?

Good luck!
--
( Kees
)
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Hi Kees,

there are no messages in access.log and error.log. The request doesn't
seem to get through to Apache. That is my recent conclusion.

In the system event log are some error messages, but none, which I can
attribute in any way to my problem. I will have to analyse them
further.

Apache is now running as a process, but that doesn't seem to make any
difference.

The firewall is active. But that can't be the problem. A test script
works, if I try to open a file on my website. It only does not work,
if I try to open a file via localhost.

I have not touched the hosts file. My Vista-notebook is only a few
weeks old.

I still have no idea where to look for the cause of the problem.

Thank you for helping!

Rainer Klueting, Stuttgart, Germany

Hi Kees,

I got it. A guy in a German Microsoft-Vista newsgroup found a bug
report:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40287

The solution is, not to open the file via localhost, but 127.0.0.1.

Thank you again!

Rainer Klüting, Stuttgart, Germany

Have a look to the hosts-file in VISTA (windows/system32/drivers/etc/
hosts:

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost

The last entry (seems to be an ip6-address) is the worse thing :) ...
comment it:

127.0.0.1 localhost
#::1 localhost

and your "http://localhost/...." - requests will work.

Have a nice day

Wolfgang Kowalski