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

Thanks Curt. I decided after a while to chalk this up as incomplete installation of Fedora Core 3, and just removed the Apache-PHP-MySQL RPMs and replaced them with their sources. I compiled them and now everything works! NOTE: Since re-installing those three fixed the problem, there was no issue with Sendmail, probably just with PHP/Apache. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curt Zirzow" <php-general@zirzow.dyndns.org> To: "PHP" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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." -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php