If you use the Performancing Metrics (www.performancing.com) sidebar plug-in for Wordpress (created by Dave Reid) you may find you get the following error (particularly when clicking UPDATE STATS):
Performancing Metrics
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/feal/public_html/blog2/wp-content/plugins/pmetrics.php on line 375
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/feal/public_html/blog2/wp-content/plugins/pmetrics.php on line 375
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/feal/public_html/blog2/wp-content/plugins/pmetrics.php on line 375
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/feal/public_html/blog2/wp-content/plugins/pmetrics.php on line 375
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/feal/public_html/blog2/wp-content/plugins/pmetrics.php on line 375
Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/feal/public_html/blog2/wp-content/plugins/pmetrics.php on line 375
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I have found that the solution is to edit the following code, which is around line 375 (or whatever line mentioned in the error as shown above).
// Initiate cURL and set options
$ch = curl_init();
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, $header);
Set this line to FALSE (it will be set to TRUE initially):
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, FALSE);
That fixes the issue. I am not sure what other effect this has, but the plug-in seems to continue working fine as far as I can tell.
This is some discussion on this issue which I raised on the Performancing.com website located here.
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