I'm setting up my development environment as explained at http://developer.piwik.org/guides/getting-started-part-1 When I ask the VisitorGenerator plugin to create some fake visitor data, I get errors such as the following, repeated indefinitely.
There is an error. Please report the message (Piwik 2.8.0-rc1) and full backtrace in the Piwik forums (please do a Search first as it might have been reported already!).
Warning: file_get_contents(http://localhost:8000/piwik.php?idsite=1&rec=1&apiv=1&rand=1636495582&_id=e4002ba0f2c2dd70&fla=1&java=1&dir=0&qt=0&realp=0&pdf=0&wma=0&gears=0&ag=0&h=12&m=34&s=6&res=1024x768&cookie=1&_cvar=%7B%225%22%3A%5B%22VisitorType%22%2C%22NewLoggedOut%22%5D%7D&cvar=%7B%223%22%3A%5B%22_pks%22%2C%22SKU2%22%5D%2C%224%22%3A%5B%22_pkn%22%2C%22PRODUCT+name%22%5D%2C%225%22%3A%5B%22_pkc%22%2C%22Electronics+%26+Cameras%22%5D%7D&url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.org%2Findex.htm&urlref=&action_name=incredible+title%21&urlref=http%3A%2F%2Fpiwik.org%2Fcontribute%&cdt=2014-10-13+04%3A18%3A38&cip=13.5.111.3&token_auth=4da92361e4fcef6b73a67ad83b5984b4&dp=1): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in /home/ron/git/piwik/core/Http.php on line 408
Backtrace -->
#0 Piwik\Error::errorHandler(...) called at [:]
#1 file_get_contents(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/core/Http.php:408]
#2 Piwik\Http::sendHttpRequestBy(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/core/Http.php:94]
#3 Piwik\Http::sendHttpRequest(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/plugins/VisitorGenerator/Generator/VisitsFromLogs.php:58]
#4 Piwik\Plugins\VisitorGenerator\Generator\VisitsFromLogs->generate(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/plugins/VisitorGenerator/Controller.php:74]
#5 Piwik\Plugins\VisitorGenerator\Controller->generate(...) called at [:]
#6 call_user_func_array(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/core/FrontController.php:579]
#7 Piwik\FrontController->doDispatch(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/core/FrontController.php:87]
#8 Piwik\FrontController->dispatch(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/core/dispatch.php:34]
#9 require_once(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/index.php:46]
There is an error. Please report the message (Piwik 2.8.0-rc1) and full backtrace in the Piwik forums (please do a Search first as it might have been reported already!).
Warning: file_get_contents(http://localhost:8000/piwik.php?idsite=1&rec=1&apiv=1&rand=1636495582&_id=e4002ba0f2c2dd70&fla=1&java=1&dir=0&qt=0&realp=0&pdf=0&wma=0&gears=0&ag=0&h=12&m=34&s=6&res=1024x768&cookie=1&_cvar=%7B%225%22%3A%5B%22VisitorType%22%2C%22NewLoggedOut%22%5D%7D&cvar=%7B%223%22%3A%5B%22_pks%22%2C%22SKU2%22%5D%2C%224%22%3A%5B%22_pkn%22%2C%22PRODUCT+name%22%5D%2C%225%22%3A%5B%22_pkc%22%2C%22Electronics+%26+Cameras%22%5D%7D&url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.org%2Findex.htm&urlref=&action_name=incredible+title%21&urlref=http%3A%2F%2Fpiwik.org%2Fcontribute%&cdt=2014-10-13+04%3A18%3A38&cip=13.5.111.3&token_auth=4da92361e4fcef6b73a67ad83b5984b4&dp=1): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in /home/ron/git/piwik/core/Http.php on line 408
Backtrace -->
#0 Piwik\Error::errorHandler(...) called at [:]
#1 file_get_contents(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/core/Http.php:408]
#2 Piwik\Http::sendHttpRequestBy(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/core/Http.php:94]
#3 Piwik\Http::sendHttpRequest(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/plugins/VisitorGenerator/Generator/VisitsFromLogs.php:58]
#4 Piwik\Plugins\VisitorGenerator\Generator\VisitsFromLogs->generate(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/plugins/VisitorGenerator/Controller.php:74]
#5 Piwik\Plugins\VisitorGenerator\Controller->generate(...) called at [:]
#6 call_user_func_array(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/core/FrontController.php:579]
#7 Piwik\FrontController->doDispatch(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/core/FrontController.php:87]
#8 Piwik\FrontController->dispatch(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/core/dispatch.php:34]
#9 require_once(...) called at [/home/ron/git/piwik/index.php:46]