So I’m just setting up my new hosting I got through GoDaddy a few weeks, and just got done installing CodeIgniter 1.6.1 on there. When I go to the usual CI welcome page it displays just fine, but there is an error about it saying “fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource” found in CI’s Common.php file.

I didn’t get any issue like this when using CI 1.6.1 locally, so is this some a GoDaddy induced error? Any else experienced an issue like this with GoDaddy?

Cheers.

A quick update: Just had a little browse in the Common.php file, and above the line with the error is makes note that the problem is probably related to my hosting being on a Windows server.

Anyone know how to fix the error on a Windows box? Or is it easier to ask GoDaddy about changing my hosting from Windows to Linux?

Is your local server windows or nix?

It’s Windows, running here off my laptop.

PHP, Apache, MySQL versions on local and remote?

Local: PHP 5.2.5, Apache 2.0.59, MySQL 5.0.41.

Remote: PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 5.0.41.

Had a look on GoDaddy, and it seems it’s running IIS and not Apache. The version of IIS is 6.0.

IIS may be your problem.

D’oh! Was afraid of that. You recommend getting in touch with GoDaddy and asking for a switch over to Linux?

GoDaddy’s not exactly a high quality host, so that in itself may be the problem.  CI should still work fine on IIS, and it shouldn’t be making to fclose() unless a valid resource was created.  Try removing the @ symbols from in front of the fopen() commands in is_really_writable() in Common.php, so any related errors aren’t being suppressed.  It sounds like fopen() is failing, but is not returning FALSE.  Maybe add a var_dump($fp) just after the fopen() too, so you can see exactly what was returned.

Thanks for the tip Derek, it’s certainly shown that there is more problems. After removing the @ symbols, these errors also appeared:

fopen() has been disabled for security reasons - codeigniter/Common.php (line 49)

fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource - codeigniter/Common.php (line 54)

chmod(): Unable to access d:\hosting\robbiedlaw\uploadr/system/cache/d645920e395fedad7bbbed0eca3fe2e0 - codeigniter/Common.php (line 55)

chmod(): No such file or directory - codeigniter/Common.php (line 55)

unlink(d:\hosting\robbiedlaw\uploadr/system/cache/d645920e395fedad7bbbed0eca3fe2e0): No such file or directory - codeigniter/Common.php (line 56)

Looks like GoDaddy block the use of fopen. What are the chances of them lifting that block for my hosting? I imagine unlikely. Does anyone have any recommendations on a new host I could move over to?

Another little update: GoDaddy just got back to me. They claim that 99% of PHP is disabled on their Windows hosting. No idea why. But they gave me instructions to switching my hosting over to Linux/Apache were there aren’t the daft PHP restrictions.

It apparently takes 24hrs for the switch to happen, so will let you know how it goes.

Heh, weird.  I’m not sure that I would even bother with a host that behaves like that, but obviously that’s personal opinion.  There are a number of people using CI on GoDaddy, though; I guess they are just using their Linux hosting.

Just got an email through that my hosting was switched to Linux, and everything seems to be working fine now. A few problems, like PATH_INFO not working but sticking a ? at the end of index.php fixed that.

Ridiculous situation GoDaddy have going over there, but at least it’s fixed for the time being. Thanks everyone for the help, really appreciate.

@RobbieL: Can you help me! I use CI 1.6.1 on Linux Godaddy hosting. But my website don’t works (see detail: http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/85559/ ). Can you provide your php.ini configuration on hosting? Thanks very much!