By tesol on

I just got this message, but don't know what it means and what I should do about it?

HTTP request status Fails
Your system or network configuration does not allow Drupal to access web pages, resulting in reduced functionality. This could be due to your webserver configuration or PHP settings, and should be resolved in order to download information about available updates, fetch aggregator feeds, sign in via OpenID, or use other network-dependent services. If you are certain that Drupal can access web pages but you are still seeing this message, you may add $conf['drupal_http_request_fails'] = FALSE; to the bottom of your settings.php file.

I have not had this problem before, and my drupal is up to date, so I don't know? Can anybody help?

Thanks

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john_b’s picture

john_b commented

It does not really need translating. When it says

Your system or network configuration does not allow Drupal to access web pages, resulting in reduced functionality.

then clearly you need to work on your system or network configuration to ensure that php is allowed to make http requests. This really means talking to the person who runs your server (or in theory the person who runs your network). Obviously if you are hosting the site on your own laptop, you need to sort it out yourself and you can post more details (though that is not really a Drupal-specific issue). If you are hosting the site on a server on the Internet which you are not managing yourself, talk to the person who manages that server, as only that person is likely to be able to resolve the problem.

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tesol commented

Hi, it says I can add this to the bottom of my settings.php file, can you tell me the path?

$conf['drupal_http_request_fails'] = FALSE;

Thanks

john_b’s picture

john_b commented

It says you can add that provided you know your HTTP requests are not failing. Probably they are failing, so suppressing the error message will not change the fact your site is not working correctly.

Assuming document root is public_html, the path to settings.php (unless you are using Drupal multi-site feature) is always public_html/sites/default/settings.php

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tesol commented

Thanks, John. In the end I didn't have to do anything--the problem seems to have fixed itself, so I don't know.

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dude4linux commented

I experienced this error report on the status page after upgrading to the latest OpenChurch distribution. I used the recommended method upgrading a distribution using drush, i.e.

drush @mysite dl openchurch
drush @mysite updatedb -y

Like tesol, the problem seemed to fix itself without me taking any action. I have no reason to believe that anything was preventing network connectivity. The site was running normally before being backed up prior to running the two commands above. I suspect the problem had something to do with clearing cache or running cron.

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