Just for posterity sake: I was correct in that it had to do with the fsockopen() function in php. However, the issue was in SELinux and not in any of my other configuration. Even when I tried to disable SELinux to test if it was a firewall issue apparently whatever was set in the Boolean’s gets loaded anyways because changing:
setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1 made everything work. You can mark this resolved. It was weird though that I never saw anything like that in any of the installation tutorials or information about Solr. It came from random notes I had to use to get ftp to work correctly as I was combing over what I had installed. ----- Cupbearer Jerry E. Craig, Jr. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Stable-Linux-Release-tp3263876p3266575.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.