How to set hostname using php curl for a specific ip

Question

Hi I have a server which has several virtual hosts set up on it.

I wanted to make a curl request to this server's ip using php. Also I wanted to make this request to a specific hostname on the server's ip.

Is there a way to do it?

A bit more elaboration : I want to make a curl requests between my servers using internal LAN, using their internal IP. The issue is that I have several sites hosted on this server. So when i make a curl request to the internal IP of the server.. something like (curl_init(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)), I want to be able to be tell apache to go to a particular folder pointed to by a virtual host. I hope that made the question a bit more clear.. – Vishesh Joshi 3 mins ago edit

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9932636/how-to-set-hostname-using-php-curl-for-a-specific-ip

Answer 1

You can set the host header in the curl request:

<?php
$ch = curl_init('XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Host: subdomain.hostname.com'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
echo curl_exec($ch);