I have a PHP CRON script that use to execute the external url using the code below every 5 minutes: echo file("https://...");
This line of code is not working after i upgrade my server from VPS to Dedicated Server. Is that anything to do to the WHM tweak, firewall, or security?
First, you have to enable the common PHP setting if the server setup by your self in VPS/Dedicated server. You can also get the content from URL using the CURL method. It is proper method compare to file get contents because it provide more settings. Notes: CURL setting must be enable on your server.
// Initiate curl session in a variable (resource)
$curl_handle = curl_init();
$url = "http://dummy.restapiexample.com/api/v1/employees";
// Set the curl URL option
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
// This option will return data as a string instead of direct output
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Execute curl & store data in a variable
$curl_data = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
