Re: fedora core 3 mail() not working from web

* Thus wrote Minuk Choi: > hey gang, > > I have a fedora core 3, with standard PHP and MySQL included with the distribution. > > I'm having a rather odd problem. > > the following script(mailTest.php) > > <?PHP > $result = mail('me@site.com', 'test subject', 'test message'); > > if (!$result) > echo "FAILURE"; > else > echo "SUCCESS"; > ?> > > does NOT work if I access it from the web > > BUT > > if I were to execute it as root on the Command prompt > > php mailTest.php > > It executes correctly and I get mail. > > This feels like the apache user is lacking access over sendmail or something... since as root I > can execute the script from the CLI without a problem, but from the web, I get a failure. You're probably on the right track with this. Check your php.ini settings for sendmail_path. Also.. the default setting for sendmail_path is 'sendmail -t -i' so if sendmail isn't in the path for your webuser then it wont get executed. To fix this, specifiy in you php.ini with the sendmail_path the absolute sendmail executable. ie: sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" HTH, Curt -- Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."