CMSB won't run to install

Hi Rod,

Here's a copy of my ticket response for anyone else following:

When you first install CMS Builder it checks to see if it can connect to the internet. Some of the new features we're adding such as the WYSIWYG spellcheck use online services (such as Google's SpellCheck API).

The software works even without an internet connection, but it seems this host doesn't allow outbound internet connections and even trying to connect to an external site causes the script to hang.

Here's a support request to send to your host:

"Hello Host,

It seems as if the PHP function fsockopen() is broken on my server.

This single line of PHP code causes the script to timeout after 60 seconds:
<?php fsockopen("tcp://www.google.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 5); ?>

It should connect (to google) or timeout after 5 seconds. I've created a test script here (Note: You'll have to wait 60 seconds for it to timeout to see the output): http://[INSERT YOUR DOMAIN]/cmsAdmin/fsockopen-bug.php

Can you please fix this or advise a work-around? Thanks!"


Let me know what they say. Hopefully we can work around it somehow.

We need to either be able to connect to the internet or have the function return an error when it can't (as it does normally), if the host makes it so certain PHP functions lock everything up it makes it work with.

Hope that helps!