file_get_contents not working on CentOS 7

Question

I was using phpoffice template processing functionality with Laravel and it worked on Ubuntu, Windows and Mac. The functionality stopped working when I migrated to centos server. I figured out that the phpoffice was calling file_get_contents to open the template file and it is failing.

So started testing the file_get_contents function.

echo file_get_contents('http://my-server-ip-address/api/public/storage/templates/template.docx');

Error,

ErrorException (E_WARNING)
file_get_contents(http://my-server-ip-address/api/public/storage/templates/template.docx): failed to open stream: Connection timed out

php.ini configuration,

allow_url_fopen = On // tried  allow_url_fopen = 1 also

Tried,

user_agent = "PHP"

I cannot change the function call to CURL approach as this is internally handled in the phpoffice composer package. Is there a solution for this?

I can access the file directly on the browser. No issues with that.

Edit:

echo file_get_contents('http://my-ip/api/public/storage/templates/template.docx');
echo file_get_contents('http://my-domain/api/public/storage/templates/template.docx');
echo file_get_contents('https://www.google.com/');
echo file_get_contents('http://localhost/api/public/storage/templates/template.docx');

Here 1 & 2 not working from the same server which the IP/domain points to but it works from any other systems including local.

Summary

Same issue with wget and CURL.

The server can't find itself using IP or domain but other systems can communicate with server.

The server identifies itself only as localhost.

Are there two servers involved here, or just one? That is, is the web page you're hitting on the same server as where the code is running (it seems so) or a different one? — Greg Schmidt, Jan 09 '20 at 05:22
Does this answer your question? [file\_get\_contents - Connection timed out](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4189973/file-get-contents-connection-timed-out). Or, perhaps, this, if it’s related to Centos (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4189973/file-get-contents-connection-timed-out) — Daniel Protopopov, Jan 09 '20 at 06:15

Amit Sharma · Answer 1 · 2020-01-09T06:02:05.803

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you can give it a try. hope it helps you out.

$url= 'https://example.com';

 $arrContextOptions=array(
    'http' => array(
        'method'=>"GET",
        'header'=>"Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8"
    ) ,
    "ssl"=>array(
          "verify_peer"=>false,
          "verify_peer_name"=>false,
          "allow_self_signed" => true, // or "allow_self_signed" => false,

      ),
  );  

$response = file_get_contents($url, false, stream_context_create($arrContextOptions));

you can read out all the manual about the stramContext here on the php manual https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

edited Jan 09 '20 at 06:02

answered Jan 09 '20 at 05:00

Amit Sharma

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try giving 777 permission to this doc – Amit Sharma Jan 09 '20 at 05:07
Tried that as well – Anshad Vattapoyil Jan 09 '20 at 05:11
try enable this extension as well mentioned here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13589639/php-file-get-contents-not-working-in-local-server – Amit Sharma Jan 09 '20 at 05:16
enabled extension, no luck. – Anshad Vattapoyil Jan 09 '20 at 05:23
could you please provide me the URL – Amit Sharma Jan 09 '20 at 05:24
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/205636/discussion-between-devo-and-amit-sharma). – Anshad Vattapoyil Jan 09 '20 at 05:29

file_get_contents not working on CentOS 7

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