Topic: Forecast script error

[thuman5]

I recently move my website to another hosting co. Now, when the forecast page is brought up, at the top it says "Warning: curl_setop(): CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when an open_basedir is set in..." and it lists the path to the advforecast2.php file on line 1222. I am fairly certain it has something to do with permissions because if I run it off my web server, it works correctly but off of the hosted copy of the site I get the error, and no forecast any where.

[saratogaWX]

It's a PHP setup thing on the host.  Either they have safe_mode = on (not recommended) or a open_basedir setting that's causing the issue with PHP itself.

Contact the tech support for the hoster showing the problem.  The advforecast2.php script needs CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION enabled due to the way the api.weather.gov server responds to a point forecast query with a redirect to a gridpoint forecast.  (Grrr)
But.. that's the way they built the API.

[thuman5]

I put a phpinfo.php file out there and do not see CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, and what should the Open basedir be?

[saratogaWX]

The CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is not set in php.ini -- it is in the script using curl.  The warning message

Warning: curl_setopt(): CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when an open_basedir is set in /vdb/home/vh2311/www/tkhuman.com/advforecast2.php on line 1222

is a PHP configuration error and has to be corrected by your website hoster.

Your PHP 5.4.23 is very old.. if you can update to PHP 5.6.x or PHP 7.2.x which are current versions, and that may fix the issue.