Creating an invoice from a custom module during a DailyCronJob event

[yrochon]

We're trying to create invoices during a DailyCronJob event hook, from a custom module we implemented. So we try to use the WHMCS API (/includes/api.php) but we get an error 404 from the Curl response. The page show

 

result=error;message=Invalid IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;

 

when accessed directly from the browser, and this is fine, but when accessed from within the server, we get an error 404. This is what we use to make the Curl request

 

$url = "http://domain.com/includes/api.php";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 100);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $arrayData);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

 

By the way, this is taken directly from the documentation page. What could be the problem? Is this the proper way of creating invoices from within a cron job?

[WHMCS John]

Have you whitelisted the IP under Setup > General Settings > Security tab?

[yrochon]

Have you whitelisted the IP under Setup > General Settings > Security tab?

 

Yes, I did put the IP in the whitelist seetting.

 

The problem was, actually, the Apache settings; After looking at the logs, I realized that, when doing an HTTP request from "127.0.0.1", the server tried to find the resource in "/var/www/html/" when our installation of WHMCS is in "/var/whmcs".

 

The problem was actually a virtual host settings, and simply change the default document root to the virtual host's.