RE: [PHP] mail() only working with php-cli

Oliver, Yes I also analyzed the log files from apache, but all they are telling me is that I am accesing the file "mail.php" with my browser. Error.log stays empty. I wish that it were possible to reproduce an error when accessing mail() that would somewhat look like this: "cannot access /usr/sbin/sendmail: permission denied", then at least I know what needs to be done. However I doubt that my php configuration is forbidden to access this file. ---- Andy -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Block [mailto:lists@block-online.eu] Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 23:58 To: php-general@lists.php.net Cc: Andy B. Subject: Re: [PHP] mail() only working with php-cli Hello Andy, did you take a look into the apache log files? Regards, Oliver Am Samstag, 5. Mai 2007 22:53 schrieb Andy B.: > Is there any way to debug the mail() function within PHP4 or PHP5? > > The following code is not working when called from a browser, but it does > work from the command line: > > <?php > $to = 'my@self.com'; > $subject = 'the subject'; > $message = 'hello.......'; > $headers = 'From: foo@bar.com' . "\r\n" . > 'Reply-To: foo@bar.com' . "\r\n" . > 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); > > if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) > echo "IT WORKED"; > else > echo "DAMN!!!"; > ?> > > > php and php-cli use the same php.ini file. Php via Apache is launched as a > module, NOT as CGI! > > sendmail_path is correctly set to /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i > > the /var/log/mail.log only shows activity when I try my code via command > line, so my best guess is that sendmail is never reached when run from the > browser. > > I went a little deeper and modified the sendmail_path to /tmp/test.sh, > which contains: > > #!/bin/bash > echo "I was used!!" > /tmp/test.log > > (chmod 777 /tmp/test.sh) > > Again I tried my script from the web and from the command line. Same > result... command line is fine and generates the test.log file. In the > browser no log file is created. > > I have already made numerous LAMP installations, but I never had this kind > of mail() issue. This installation is quite simple: standard Apache 2.0 > with php5, php5-mysql, php5-gd, ... This makes it even more frustrating :-( > > What am I missing? > > Thanks a lot!! > > ---- > Andy