Hi

I've made a site that gathers information from a couple of search engines. The site usually works just fine, but somethime there is a problem. The problem I get random Internal Server Errors. Not every time just every 10 times the script runs. It is completely random, it does not matter which parameters are used. You can run the script with the exact same parameters 10 times and 1 of them will generate an Internal Server Error.

I’m using fopen() to retrieve the information from the search engines. I used to use a combination of file_exists and file(), but someone told me that fopen() was better.

So what on earth can I do? I presume the Internal Server Error comes when the script cannot get in touch with the Search Engines. This knowledge does not help me a lot because I don’t know what to do with it.

Is there some kind of Error Handling that can help me?

Or is there a problem with the host? The reason why asking about the host because I never get this error when I do it on my local machine.

You can see the site here: Statbrain.com

I’ve tried everything so please help me, I’m completely lost.

What's the error message in your error log say ?

Here is what my error log says:
[Sat Mar 12 23:55:50 2005] [error] [client 194.192.69.13] Premature end of script headers: /powweb/web/cgi-bin/php5
[Sat Mar 12 23:56:50 2005] [error] [client 194.192.69.13] Premature end of script headers: /powweb/web/cgi-bin/php5
[Sat Mar 12 23:57:45 2005] [error] [client 194.192.69.13] Premature end of script headers: /powweb/web/cgi-bin/php5
[Sat Mar 12 23:58:58 2005] [error] [client 194.192.69.13] Premature end of script headers: /powweb/web/cgi-bin/php5

Is this what you mean or is there a different log?

From the looks of this error, did you install PHP in the cgi-bin?

I'm on shared hosting and PHP works just fine. This is a random error that only occurs every 10th time or so. You can try it on my website.

Well, it working fine for me.

What (exact) PHP version ?

The site is running PHP Version 5.0.3.