Hello,

Has anyone set up a Push Notifications server in the Ubuntu configuration? I could use some help in getting this established since I am trying to get this service started. I'm running some PHP scripts and it returns an error string when it tries to connect.

This is the code snippet:
<?php
$fp = fsockopen("ssl://gateway.push.apple.com:2195",2195, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
echo "Err.$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
} else {
echo "success";/*
$out = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$out .= "Host: www.example.com\r\n";
$out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
fwrite($fp, $out);
while (!feof($fp)) {
echo fgets($fp, 128);
}*/
fclose($fp);
}
?>

Any detailed solutions would be greatly appreciated. We can discuss a short-term contract if there is much more that is involved. Thanks in advance.

More helpful would be the error number and error message verbatim.
Things like the version of php and distro are also helpful, as might phpinfo() output.

Also, you probably don't need the port in the hostname, since fsockopen expects a port in the function arguments.

This will give the PHP info: http://173.255.209.254/test1.php

Here is the original push notification code

$ctx = stream_context_create();
stream_context_set_option($ctx, 'ssl', 'apns_dev', '.pem');
// assume the private key passphase was removed.
stream_context_set_option($ctx, 'ssl', 'passphrase', $pass);

$fp = stream_socket_client('ssl://gateway.push.apple.com:2195', $err, $errstr,30, STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT, $ctx);

if (!$fp) {
print "Failed to connect $err $errstr\n";
return;
}
else {
print "Connection OK\n";
}

I always get Failed to connect 0

This might help..

$apnsHost = 'gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com';
$apnsPort = 2195;
$apnsCert = 'apns-dev.pem';

$streamContext = stream_context_create();
stream_context_set_option($streamContext, 'ssl', 'local_cert', $apnsCert);

$apns = stream_socket_client('ssl://' . $apnsHost . ':' . $apnsPort, $error, $errorString, 2, STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT, $streamContext);

//send payload
$apnsMessage = chr(0) . chr(0) . chr(32) . pack('H*', str_replace(' ', '', $deviceToken)) . chr(0) . chr(strlen($payload)) . $payload;
fwrite($apns, $apnsMessage);

//close socket
socket_close($apns);
fclose($apns);