Unable to connect to PHP Websocket Server - php

I am trying to set up a PHP websocket server using phpwebsocket. Everything I have done is exactly per the phpwebsocket files (with the exception of changing the server to localhost and adjusting ports). I am trying to do this on Windows 7 with Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.2.17. I have also tried several other examples that I have found on the web.
With all of the different set ups I have tried, I have not been able to get Firefox to connect to the socket. I have also tried using Telnet to connect but have not had any luck there. I feel like there must a step that I am missing because I get the same result with everything I try. I have also disabled Windows Firewall which did not change the result.
Any thoughts on what might be keeping this setup from being able to get a connection?

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connect webpack devserver (HMR) with PHP project running with virtual host

Currently, I developing a WordPress plugin with React frontend.
I tried to connect my backend (PHP) running on a virtual host with webpack devserver with hot module replacement (HMR).
Is there any config how to do it.
note: I tried with devserver proxy but cant figure it out.
Thanks in advance.
Getting HMR is always complicated for custom setup like these. Theoretically, this is pretty simple. You simply need to run the webpack-dev-server with the HMR module. On your PHP file, make sure it uses the JS file generated from webpack-dev-server. The code to refresh is bundled in the JS file so it should work.
However, the devil is in the details. You'll need to make sure the communication between your page and webpack-dev-server works without issue. Monitor your websocket network request and make sure they communicate as expected.
An issue you'll probably encounter is security since the websocket connection is expecting a different host. In this case, you can use config from the following answer: I am getting an "Invalid Host header" message when connecting to webpack-dev-server remotely
Another issue could be that the JS file tries to connect to the wrong location. Eg: It thinks that your host is where the websocket connection is. If this is the case, you can use the public setting. See here for documentation: https://webpack.js.org/configuration/dev-server/#devserverpublic
To me this is akin to running with a reverse proxy. You can see this discussion to understand the problem: https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server/issues/804
There might be other problems. You just need to check the websocket connection and make sure they communicate without problems
How you refer to the generated js file is a separate problem. A simple example would be setting the port to 8081 and bundling the js file into bundle.js. Then in your php code, refer to it as http://localhost:8081/bundle.js

Issue with XAMPP and MySql

I am facing a problem pretty common, I have installed MySql Server because in the past I developed an CRUD app by using Java Swing and Maven, and now I am trying to create same thing, a CRUD app only this time with PHP.
I am following a tutorial from Udemy and this guy is using XAMPP to launch both an Apache Server and a MySQL. But somehow it's interfering with the one already installed on my laptop and cannot make the connection with XAMPP.
I opened my.ini and where says password i put my own from MySQL Workbench, and I see it's using the same port 3306 but still cannot work and I dont know why.
Is there any solution to modify my.ini and establish the connection without uninstalling the MySql Server installed before, because if I do that I ruin the other Java app using it.
Could you please provide the error logs? So the problem can be identified properly. By default, you can get the logs file for Apache in
\xampp\apache\logs\error.log
And for PHP here \xampp\php\logs

I want to use PHP to query my current domain SQL server

I have tried everything
Wamp and XAMPP only provide thier own local server and wont let me specify my own server
I have tried IIS and PHP but it doesnt work at all
I would like a simple way to get my SQL server to use PHP in my domain, i dont need it to be remote access yet
Appreciate some hand holding at this point :(
Thanks
Hi thanks for replying
I have explained below what everything meant by using xammp or want iis and php
The server I have is on the Microsoft SQL server management studio
All of the all in one installers will just user local Host and thier own server and database I want to use mine.
Whenever I try using MySQL connection it says it has activley refused connection.
I've added my credentials into the security section on the server. Allowed remote login and specified ports on the server manager program.
Why isn't there a simple step by step program to enable php use on my server and or connect it to my online site..

NuSOAP - PHP: Having server and client webservice in the same server and domain

I have a client web application (A) who tries to get the information of another application (B) with a webservice.
I've been testing it in my local machine and all went like a charm. However, when I uploaded them to my server (CentOS 6, SELinux disabled, Firewall configuration checked) I get the following error:
wsdl error: Getting http://applicationB/?wsdl - HTTP ERROR: Couldn't open socket connection to server http://applicationB/?wsdl, Error (110): Connection timed out
Of course, "applicationB" is a valid URL.
They are in the same server. One is in appa.domain.com and the other one in appb.domain.com.
I've tried to call directly the IP of the server in stead of writing the domain name, but no luck with that neither.
If I check manually the WSDL URL, I get a well formatted WSDL file, so it's not the problem.
I've tried to connect external webservices and they work well, so I think it's a problem with having the server and client webservices in the same machine (or domain).
With that in mind, I've also tried to listen to port 81 and calling the webservice via this port, so the listening port and the requesting port would not be the same. No luck neither.
I'm stuck with this, and I cannot get more ideas to solve it or to find a workaround.
Anyone of you maybe have experienced this problem before and know how to solve it?
Thanks in advance for your time and answers!
EDIT
I've been trying to connect to my localhost webpage via command line, using Lynx browser from my server and I can't not access the page, even trying with its IP. It cannot be reached.
Maybe this could help to find out a solution.
Finally I got it working...
I post the answer here to be helpful for future users.
The problem was in the hosts server file. As #Amenadiel told me in a comment, it wasn't resolving the names.
I changed the hosts files and it seems it took more than I expected (I made the changes 3 days before and they weren't applied yet) so I discarded the hosts issues as an option. But it seems it was the only problem.
Why, then, didn't work neither when I tried to reach it using its IP? Well, it's because of the server nature. It's a server hosted in the Cloud, so it will be - for sure - a Virtual Machine.
It has a public IP (the one I was pointing to) and a private LAN IP. The server could not see the public IP, so if I was about to use one, it should have been the private (LAN) one.
Thanks again to all of you for your answers and your patience with this server side newbie!

PHP Websocket on Webserver

A few days ago I setup this WebSocket server from http://code.google.com/p/phpwebsocket/
It works excellent on my localhost by using Xampp. Then, I uploaded it to my webspace on Strato, but now I am not able to connect to the server.
I changed the the sockets connection to my domain but it didn`t work
Client.html:
var host = "ws://xxxxxxxx.com:12345/Websocket/server.php";
Server.php:
$master = WebSocket("xxxxxx",12345);
I already tried it with different port(80,443,12345,8080,8000....), using the IP address in server.php instead of the domain.
I also used absolute and relative paths in the client.html.
From the projects page http://code.google.com/p/phpwebsocket/ someone suggested to use 0 or 0.0.0.0 in the server.php, but that didn`t work either.
In the client.html it just shows:
WebSocket - status 0
Disconnected - status 3
My guess that the problem is that Strato is blocks me from using WebSockets.
Is it possible to run WebSockets on my webspace?
My bet is that your host is blocking incoming requests to the socket. Your not supposed to run scripts like phpwebsocket within a web service (it is a server itself). This confuses a lot of people since PHP is typically used for scripting webpages, not for coding daemons.
I say this because you mentioned running the script within Xampp, and referred to your hosting service as 'webspace'.
If this is the case you will have to upgrade to a virtual server package so that you can run your own services.
Okay, to bring this to an end.
I found a solution to use my websockets app and I´ve got an explanation why it did not work on my shared hosting solution.
I contacted Strato who told me that they don`t allow Websocket on shared hosting. The only way to get a similiar result would be to use AJAX Long Pooling.
Now I purchased to a Virtual Server and my websocket app works great now.
Thanks for your support.

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