network connectivity for PHP - installing CMS Builder

For anyone encountering this problem

I've been using CMS builder for years, with the same hosting company (one of the largest here), but recently they moved to cloud hosting and they insist that I need to connect via proxy (although then I have issues with database connectivity), although managed to get around it.  In the cmsAdmin/lib/init file, find the

// check for disabled sockets

Change the line below to read

// displaySocketErrors();   (rather than starting with init...)

Although this issue has forum comments dating back to 2008, it's still an issue with major hosting providers.

Hope that helps.