Why my API call works on my local server and not online? (error 500)-CodePudding

I have two different website (two different domains) which use laravel. One of them (which I'll call here api.com) provides an api with different routes and is actually on a local server (111.111.1.111) :

routes/api.php :

Route::prefix('news')->group(function () {

    Route::get('', [ApiController::class, 'newsIndex']);
    Route::get('{id}', [ApiController::class, 'newsShow']);
});

ApiController :

    public function newsIndex()
    {
        $news = News::orderByDesc('ordre')
                    ->where('site_destination', 'like', '%other%')
                    ->where('statut', '=', 1)
                    ->get();

        return response()->json($news);
    }

    public function newsShow($id) 
    {
        $news = News::findOrfail($id);

        return response()->json($news);
    }

I have to call these APIs from my second website (which I will call here request.com). I want to deploy this one online (planethoster server). I succeed to deploy it but my page where I called API from api.com doesn't work : return 500 error.

Into my controller on request.com :

    public function index() 
    {
        $newsListFromApi = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://111.111.1.111/api/news"));
        $newsFirstPictureList = [];
        foreach ($newsListFromApi as $key => $value) {
            $newsFirstPictureList[$value->id] = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://111.111.1.111/api/news/" . $value->id . "/firstPicture"));
        }
    
        return View::make('client.news.index', [ 
            'newsListFromApi' => $newsListFromApi,
            'newsFirstPictureList' => $newsFirstPictureList,
         ]);
    }

    public function show($newsId)
    {
        $news = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://111.111.111/api/news/" . $newsId));
        $newsDocs = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://111.111.1.111/api/news/" . $newsId . "/docs"));
        // dump($newsDocs);
        return View::make('client.news.show', [
            'news' => $news,
            'newsDocs' => $newsDocs,
        ]);
    }

If request.com is on localhost (production or development mode) it works fine. I only have warning message in console about mixed contents that I'm aware of. But if I deploy request.com I have a 500 error.

On the logs I have this entry :

*[2022-06-13 13:55:03] production.ERROR: file_get_contents(http://111.111.1.111/api/news): failed to open stream: Connection timed out {"userId":x,"email":"xx","exception":"[object] (ErrorException(code: 0): file_get_contents(http://111.111.1.111/api/news): failed to open stream: Connection timed out at /home/xx/laravel/releases/20220613-120400/app/Http/Controllers/Client/NewsController.php:12)
[stacktrace]

The api.com et request.com api aren't on the same server on development.

Do you think that it can be caused by the mixed contents error? I think that the browser will only not display images but display the page anyway...

Also I think it can be a problem of cross origin but I hadn't such an error message of it.

I suppose, thanks to the log, that it has a problem with this line of code when I call the API :

$newsListFromApi = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://111.111.1.111/api/news"));

I am used to call API on JS with fetch(Ajax) but not with PHP...

Why does it work locally, but not online?

CodePudding user response：

You can connect to your local server from outside of your network only if it has public access (open TCP/IP ports and public IP). http://111.111.1.111 is a local IP address in this context.

You could deploy your API service to another server, and then the two would be able to connect.