GoDaddy will not allow url file access

[SylvaniaWeather]

Hoping someone can help me.  I just switched over to GoDaddy for my hosting.  My Saratoga rss-advisory & forcast scripts are no longer working right.  GoDaddy tells me that I cannot pull from a URL for security reasons.  I there anyway around this.

My site is at http://www.sylvaniaweather.com

[sam2004gp]

Ken, posted below me, he has the better answer.

Here is/was my answer when I had no php script functionality at all, because of a directory permission problem.:

I had a similar problem.  Is your server on godaddy Linux or Windows based?  I bet it's windows have them switch you to a Linux server.  The switchover should be free, and fix your issue.  Basically it involves the permissions need for those scripts to run properly.

[saratogaWX]

Sure,

On your index.php page, replace the

Code:

<?php include('http://www.sylvaniaweather.com/rss-advisory.php?&inc=Y&summary=Y;detailpage=advdetail.php'); ?>

with

Code:

<?php
 $_REQUEST['inc'] = 'Y';
 $_REQUEST['summary'] = 'Y';
 $_REQUEST['detailpage'] = 'advdetail.php';
include("rss-advisory.php");
?>

and that should fix the index page.

For the advdetail.php page, just replace

Code:

<?php include('http://www.sylvaniaweather.com/rss-advisory.php?&inc=Y'); ?>

with

Code:

<?php
 $_REQUEST['inc'] = 'Y';
include("rss-advisory.php");
?>

Best regards,
Ken

[SylvaniaWeather]

thanks so much!  I'll give it a try tomorrow and let you know how it all works out.

[SylvaniaWeather]

also, if forgot to mention that the icons for my forecast are no longer showing up.  Any thoughts?

[SylvaniaWeather]

Got everything working including the icons.    I just had those uploaded to the wrong folder.  Thanks for all your help.  Thanks Ken for all the hard work you put into these scripts!

[SylvaniaWeather]

well, I have a sever t-storm right now and nothing is showing up on my web page, any ideas?

[TorH]

Well i don't know if you mean your site isn't showing? I can get it up here, and the forecast are there too, with the icons 

[SylvaniaWeather]

Sorry, that's what happens when to type up a message to fast.  It tends to be a little on the vauge side.  It's my advisory script that is not working.  I made the changes to it that Ken suggested and that got rid of the error codes.  However, when a severe t-storm warning came in this afternoon nothing showed up in the green bar at the top of the website.

[saratogaWX]

The issue is that your cache file for the return of data from weather.gov is not writable

<!-- GET /alerts/wwarssget.php?zone=OHZ003 HTTP/1.0
      Host: www.weather.gov -->
<!-- Time to fetch: 0.309 sec -->
<!-- unable to write rss-advisory-OHZ003.txt -->

You need to create a 'rss-advisory-OHZ003.txt' file using notepad, upload it to your website, then use your website control panel to set its permissions to 666 so it is writable by the script.  Then it should work fine.

You'll also need a 'forecast.txt' file to cache the results from weather.gov for your point printable forecast -- advforecast2.php shows

<!-- unable to write cache file forecast.txt -->

With these two cache files enabled, your home page will load more quickly too

Best regards,
Ken

[SylvaniaWeather]

Looks like everything is working now.  I did end up having to switch from a windows account to a linux account.  The windows hosting did not allow permission changes.

Thanks again for everyones help!
Lynnette

[saratogaWX]

Good move, Lynnette!

PHP scripts and websites just seem to work better on Linux/Apache websites, and unless you're writing ASP pages or .NET applications, you're better off with Linux/Apache (IMHO).

Best regards,
Ken

[sam2004gp]

Looks like everything is working now.  I did end up having to switch from a windows account to a linux account.  The windows hosting did not allow permission changes.

Thanks again for everyones help!
Lynnette

Hmm, my response was helpful after all.  Great. 

[mackbig]

I think people get misdirected (confused) when signing up for hosting... probably because its their first foray into hosting a site post a free site somewhere.

After you click on Hosting plans... it says "choose your operating system"  People think "I am running XP, so I must need a Windows hosting plan"

Andrew

[sam2004gp]

That is sort of exactly what I thought, when I signed up with Godaddy as well.  At least when I switched over to Linux it was a free change.