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Note Submitter: info at salientdigital dot com ---- A word of caution... If you have some PHP code or file that is included from within a web request via Apache + PHP, as well as from a command line script, be very careful to inspect the keys inside of $_SERVER that you intend to use. The keys and values are different, and in fact, it also matters if you are running as your_user, sudo php from your_user, or from root. For example, I just found out that $_SERVER['PWD'] is not available if you run from the command line via sudo (PHP 5.2x, CentOS, YMMV). To make a test, create a file called server.php with the following content: <?php var_dump($_SERVER); ?> Then from the commandline: your_account/dir #$ php server.php > your_account_server.txt your_account/dir #$ sudo php server.php > your_account_sudo_server.txt your_account/dir #$ sudo bash root/dir #$ php server.php > root_server.txt Now you can diff the output of each of these three files and inspect against what you get when viewing the $_SERVER section of phpinfo() from a web request. You may find the differences to be quite striking, in all, four different ways to run the same PHP file!