If you’re writing or consuming webservices with PHP SOAP, it’s possible you run into the SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL problem once. The complete error string is: SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn’t load from ‘http://host/service?wsdl’ : <specific error> If you copy and paste the url (including the ?wsdl parameter) in the browser and you see the WSDL file, [...]