Problem Running Curl

Hello, We have just ported over our site from a hosting facility and struggling to get curl working. We are using compiled Apache2, PHP php-5.3.8 with curl-7.22.0 with a 64 bit distro of Cent OS 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5. My phpinfo says curl is installed and enabled. Note, I did not modify the php.ini as I saw references on web I didn’t need to, but I don’t see that php_curl.so is installed anywhere. I don’t know if that is an issue or not. However, our php with curl is just hanging. When I run a sample test script, it does run, but I get an empty file. I have attached my configure script for php and my sample php curl test. Does anyone know what I have done wrong or am missing? <?php $ch = curl_init("http://www.example.com/"); $fp = fopen("example_homepage.txt", "w"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); fclose($fp); ?> ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache/php \ --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \ --with-mysql=/var/lib/mysql \ --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache/php \ --enable-force-cgi-redirect \ --disable-cgi \ --with-zlib \ --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/lib \ --with-gettext \

--with-gdbm     \
--with-gd    \

--with-libdir=lib64 \ --with-png-dir=/usr/lib \ --with-ttf=/usr/lib \ --with-freetype-dir=/usr \ --with-t1lib=/usr \ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib \ --with-png-dir=/usr/usr \ --enable-gd-native-ttf \ --with-curl=/usr/local