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    <p>This site has been up for several months now and has been working fine. I have a PHP page that creates an invoice from data in the url (e.g. viewinvoice.php?id=250 builds an invoice based on record 250). This page is accessible via a web browser and works fine.</p> <p>On a completely different page (i.e. test.php) I'm trying to access that file via cURL. However, when I make the call and var_dump the results, I get bool(false). </p> <p>Here's the function that makes the cURL call:</p> <pre><code>function file_get_contents_curl($url) { $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); $data = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); return $data; } </code></pre> <p>HOME is a constant that denotes the full url (e.g. <a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.example.com/</a>).</p> <pre><code>$invoice_contents = file_get_contents_curl(HOME.'viewinvoice.php?id=242'); echo $invoice_contents; var_dump( $invoice_contents ); </code></pre> <p>I've tried changing the url to an external url (i.e. <a href="http://www.google.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.google.com/</a>) and the page loads just fine. I get google's home page. But any page that's in the same domain won't load. Is there a reason that this would happen?</p> <p>I am not the server admin, but I have root access to the server. I have not changed any settings recently, but the server admin may have upgraded the version of apache or php?</p> <p>In any case, is there a setting I can modify to make this work again?</p> <p>P.S. I just tried making this exact call from an external server (different domain) and it works just fine.</p>
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