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troubleshooting cURL

Asked by GroverDill in PHP Scripting Language

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I am supposed to use cURL to submit credit card information to a gateway. Our website wasn't configured to use curl, so we've had to install it ourselves. Now that it has been installed, it doesn't appear to me that it's working, as I've yet to get the cURL functions to produce ANY meaningful output. If somebody could help me troubleshoot my cURL install and suggest and server level fixes we may need to make, I'd appreciate it.

Okay, for starters, the phpinfo command for our server reports the following config options:
'./configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-xml' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--with-curl' '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--with-mysql' '--with-pear' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-versioning' '--with-zlib'

and the curl section says that curl support in enabled with the following specific info:
libcurl/7.10.8 OpenSSL/0.9.6b zlib/1.1.4

However, when I try to run the following test script on the server, the browser simply redirects to some random page (which may have been previously configured as the 404 page, idunno):
<?

    $url = 'http://www.jesush.com;
     $ch = curl_init($url);
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
     $output = curl_exec($ch);
     curl_close($ch);

echo "<html><head></head><body><pre>$output</pre></body></html>";

?>

Shouldn't the above script produce some meaningful output in a curl enabled browser? What gives?
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Zone: PHP Scripting Language
Tags: curl, installation, troubleshooting
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