I’m trying to fix this on my own and I can’t seem to figure it out. I have installed the parent & child themes as instructed and made sure that the several files you mention were writable (777 – right?) and I’m getting this error on my site. I also followed all (I hope) instructions on setting the front page as static, etc. I think I followed thru pretty thoroughly – but still no luck 
...see my error that shows on the front page below
Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /homepages/25/d202619469/htdocs/mysite/wordpress/wp-content/themes/wpBusiness/functions.php on line 260
Please help~
( i know you will
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Well the error itself already tells you what’s the matter.
If you look at it carefully it says:
URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration.
This means you have to enable remote file access on your server. Contact your host for that.