Re: mail() only working with php-cli

From: Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 23:00:32 +0000
Subject: Re: mail() only working with php-cli
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On Sat, May 5, 2007 3:53 pm, Andy B. wrote: > Is there any way to debug the mail() function within PHP4 or PHP5? Check Apache error logs. Check sendmail (or whatever) error logs. > The following code is not working when called from a browser, but it > does > work from the command line: Often points to a paths/permissions problem... Can you 'su' to the Apache/PHP User and *then* run sendmail on command line? > 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 You put quotes around that in php.ini, right?... Cuz it needs the quotes, last I checked: sendmail_path = "/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. Hmmm. That blows away the quotes as an issue, at least until you got back to using multi-word path... Was sendmail installed when you compiled PHP, so PHP "knows" that it should be able to use it? Or, the short version of that question: Does <?php phpinfo();?> show you 'mail' as an installed extension? -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?

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