Re: A Strange Problem

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Tedd Sperling <tedd@sperling.com> wrote: > Hi gang: > > I have a very strange problem. > > I can use this statement in one folder: > > $fcontents = file('docs/admin-email.txt'); > > But in a different folder with an exact path having > 'docs/admin-email.txt', I get: > > Warning: file(/docs/admin-email.txt) [function.file]: failed to open > stream: No such file or directory in <cut> on line 83 > > Are you sure it is the same string? It looks like this one has an extra '/' at the beginning? > This has got me really puzzled. > > 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. > > Any ideas as to what is going on? > > Cheers, > > tedd > > > 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