[wp-forums] Accessing external sites

[Otto]

No, this guy is having a hostname-resolution problem. Basically, his
server either doesn't have DNS set up, or it's firewalled or
something.

The allow_url_fopen setting is not required, nor desirable. If the PHP
install has curl enabled, that would be used instead.

-Otto



On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The short answer is yes, you would need to make sure that
> allow_url_fopen is turned on and in some cases the same for include as
> well
>
> On 6/29/12, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net> wrote:
>> <http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-cant-communicate-with-external-sites?>
>>
>> Do you need anything particular in the PHP install to allow WP to access
>> external feeds and sites?
>>
>> esmi
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