What URL is cms builder calling home to?

Are you referring to the "Error: PHP fsockopen() and/or network connectivity disabled" error?

If so that's a check that's done in /lib/init.php on install only (it's at the bottom, you can just comment it out) and it tries to connect to www.google.com to test for network access.

When you install the registration process is passive, meaning you shouldn't ever get any errors, and connects to www.registerSoftware.to

The google check is unneeded right now and mainly in place to prepare for future updates where we _may_ add more optional network features in future like sending mail via SMTP, pinging blog services, google spellcheck, or downloading content from internet urls, etc.

Just for future reference, is there any way to make features like those work in your environment or we'd just have to rely on customers with similar setups to setup firewall rules for that?

Hi Dave,

I can't find anything to comment out in that file.

We have to allow all outbound traffic from this webserver to make the cms work again.

Could you tell me exactly what I need to comment out? I did on the contents on all of the files and couldn't find www.google.com in there anywhere.

Thanks,

Tony

The network connectivity check is at the bottom of /lib/init.php under a comment that says "// check for disabled sockets". It's in v1.10. The first few lines look like this:

// check for disabled sockets
if (!$SETTINGS['isInstalled']) {
$handle = fsockopen("tcp://www.google.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 5);
if (!$handle) {
$errors = "Error: PHP fsockopen() and/or network connectivity disabled!<br/>\n";
...
}
}

But once CMS Builder is installed you shouldn't get any errors even if it doesn't have network connectivity. What error are you getting? You're running v1.10 right?

Let me know the error or output you're getting and I'll help you get it fixed ASAP.