PHP SOAP request script getting 500 error on LAMP server - php

I have a PHP script that sends a SOAP request to an ASMX API that is owned by a dfferent division of the company that I work for. I developed this script in the WAMP environment on my personal company PC and it works fine in that environment, successfully recveiving and parsing the response. However when I upload this script to the LAMP-based development server (which was just setup) and attempt to run it through a web browser, I get a 500 Internal Server Error. The web engineer who setup the server says he installed and enabled the PHP SOAP extension. Does anybody know of anything else used in the code below that needs to be activated on the server that would cause a 500 error by its absence?
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//Common SOAP client options that can be set.
$clientOptions = array(
'exceptions'=>true,
'trace'=>1,
'cache_wsdl'=>WSDL_CACHE_NONE,
'location' => $endpointURL);
//The creation of the client object. We pass it a reference to the WSDL.
$requestXML = '<GetRateQuote xmlns="<URL>">
CORRECTLY FORMATTED XML IS HERE
</GetRateQuote>';
$requestObj = new SoapVar($requestXML,XSD_ANYXML);
$client = new SoapClient($endpointURL . "?wsdl", $clientOptions);
//Retrieve the response.
$result = $client->GetRateQuote($requestObj);
//Put the data into a variable to be parsed
$data = $result->GetRateQuoteResult;....

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