Re: [PHP] A Strange Problem

Matijin:

My mistake in posting -- I have tried it several different ways including absolute.

Nothing works.

Cheers,

tedd

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On Jun 20, 2013, at 1:43 PM, Matijn Woudt <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Tedd Sperling <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi gang:
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> I have a very strange problem.
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> I can use this statement in one folder:
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>         $fcontents = file('docs/admin-email.txt');
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> But in a different folder with an exact path having 'docs/admin-email.txt', I get:
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> Warning: file(/docs/admin-email.txt) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <cut> on line 83
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> Are you sure it is the same string? It looks like this one has an extra '/' at the beginning?
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> This has got me really puzzled.
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> I have confirmed these are the exact same folders and files, except only in two different places on the server. Both are one level down from root.
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> Any ideas as to what is going on?
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> Cheers,
> 
> tedd
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> Else it could be permission item, I think the user executing the PHP script (www-user or such for apache), needs to have execute rights on all directories up to the file, to be able to read the file listing.
> 
> - Matijn 
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