QRZ Lookup and Persistent connections are disabled error

[aaggiiss]

Hi,

Just built myself a new install on my Rocky 8 Linode server as previously hosted on a vm on my laptop and I cannot get my QRZ lookup to work.

I have configured the config as per my local copy but the the icons do not appear and lookups fail

Server:

Version 2.6.17 Language English Server Software Apache PHP Version 8.2.25 MySQL Version 10.3.39-MariaDB

In Developer mode I get:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: mysqli::real_connect(): Persistent connections are disabled. Downgrading to normal

Filename: mysqli/mysqli_driver.php

Line Number: 203

Production it goes away and the QRZ comes up saying “Lookup not configured. Please review configuration.”

This

curl -L 'http://xmldata.qrz.com/xml/current/?username=g7jyf;password=*******;callsign=g7jyf ‘

works on the server fine as I have full access.

I have the config correct in the config.php, I have copied my password into qrz itself and it works fine

$config['qrz_username'] = "g7jyf"; $config['qrz_password'] = "********";

So I switched developer mode on to look at he error but only get the “ Persistent connections are disabled. Downgrading to normal” error but no either errors which may help with my qrz issue.

Any suggestions ?

Many thanks

Stuart