Troubleshooting phpListGrab

Due to the nature of phpListGrab, some users may have trouble getting it to work. There are two main reasons that may be causing problems.

The first common one is the script displaying Failed to connect to server. after a delay (ie. the script will stall for a while then load the page with the message). This is usually due to a firewall blocking the connection. The Web server the script is running on must be able to create outgoing connections to port 1863. Most shared Web hosts will have this blocked for security reasons and you probably will not be able to get it unblocked. How you get around this is really up to you, my only recommendation is try another server.

The other issue is authentication failing. phpListGrab uses MSNPAuth to authenticate with Passport. The version which uses cURL is known to not work on certain configurations, if this sounds like the case, try using version 1.2.1 which simply uses fsockopen. This release of phpListGrab uses this, so there shouldn’t be many people running into this one.

2 Responses to “Troubleshooting phpListGrab”


  1. 1 jean pierre

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  2. 2 indika

    hi,
    when i try sendMsg using your sand box, it gave me the following error
    Something went wrong trying to connect to the server

    what has gone wrong?

  1. 1 New version of sendMsg available for testing at Fanatic Live
  2. 2 sendMsg: Sending messages using PHP at Fanatic Live

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