Problem with port number reading file contents

[the dooode]

I am trying to open a remote file and read the contents using the following code:

$file = 'http://www.domainname.com:82/file.xml';
if ($data = file_get_contents($file)) {
    echo $data;
} else {
    echo 'could not read file';
} 

This is working on my local wamp machine but when I try on the server i can't read the file. I have another file that is on port 80 so the url is like this "http://www.domainname.com/anotherfile.xml" and this one works. How do i get round this port issue?

[Ernie1]

is the sever listens on port 82?

[the dooode]

Do you mean the server with the file i am trying to read on (i have no access to this server)? This file is displaying fine in the browser and when i use file_get_contents on my local machine.

[Ernie1]

The URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration.
in php.ini
allow_url_fopen = Off

[the dooode]

Nope definitely on....

also this works:

$file = 'http://www.domainname.com/anotherfile.xml';
if ($data = file_get_contents($file)) {
    echo $data;
} else {
    echo 'could not read file';
} 

[Ernie1]

enable error reporting and try phpinfo()
see the output

[the dooode]

Just been trying out the cURL method:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $file);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $data; 

No luck here either.... Is the problem the port number specified on the url?

[Dan Grossman]

Try setting CURLOPT_PORT to 82 and removing the port from the URL.

If that doesn't work, use sockets directly to make the connection.

[Salathe]

Does the server have a firewall set up which might be blocking that port?

[the dooode]

Having spoken to my hosting company it was my server that was blocking any outgoing connections to non-standard ports. After opening port 82 this now works.

Thanks for your time guys!