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bobinabottle
Asked: 2010-09-28 19:01:25 +0800 CST

www-data user doesn't seem to have the access to use php-curl

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I'm trying to get the simpletest module for drupal to work, which relies on php-curl to fetch its requests.

When I as the user root do the following it works fine:

root@server:~# php -a
Interactive mode enabled

<?php

$ch = curl_init("http://testsite.drupal.dev/user");
$fp = fopen("example.html", "w");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>

root@server:~# cat /root/example.html 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<!-- Blah Blah -->
</body>
</html>
root@server:~#

However when the www-data user does it, it fails:

root@server:~# su - www-data
www-data@server:~$ php5 -a
Interactive mode enabled

<?php

$ch = curl_init("http://testsite.drupal.dev/user");
$fp = fopen("example.html", "w");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>

www-data@server:~$ cat example.html 
www-data@server:~$

Has anyone seen this before? I'm struggling to see how I can fix this. Any help is appreciated! :)

Environment: Debian Etch / Apache2 / php5

php5 www-data curl

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Sorry. It wasn't a permissions issue. It turns out the www-data user had an old http_proxy set in its ~/.profile and in /etc/apache2/envvars that no longer exists.

    I've commented it out and now its working :)

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