There may be certain servers which do not allow curl options so there is a alternate option for it. We can use commands such as file open, fgets and perform the same functionality as curl. Read the whole post for the solution

Open a terminal window and run the following commands:
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-xsl php5-gd php-pear libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql
sudo sed -i ’s/; extension=mysql.so/extension=mysql\.so/g’ /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
That’s a series of 3 spaces after ’s/;
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Reboot and you’re done!

Click Start
Then – RUN
Type CMD press OK
Type this command in command prompt
mstsc /v:00.00.00.00 /f /admin
Replace 00.00.00.00 with your server’s IP Address or server name. e.g.SERVER

Recently I came across the issue of funny character for one of our client websie developed in Zen Cart. I have searched almost more than 10+ forums including zen cart forums. But couldnt find the root of the issue. But I have found out the issue from one site that that might be character encoding issue.
Zen cart settings was for Latin 8859 – 1 which was the root of the issue of funny character.
I have set up UTF-8 Unicode character set encoding for 3 files and it works like a …