Fwd: php not reading file properly

["sean greenslade" <zootboysean@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the advice. I changed the perms to 777 and changed the user and
group to apache, but it still won't open.


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Robbert van Andel <swimmer1974@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Does the user your PHP instance runs as have access to the file?  It's
> possible that it runs under a different users depending on if you're running
> the script on the terminal or in a web browser.  The function fopen will
> return false if the file fails to open.  Find out if $fh is equal to false.
> While you're debugging, you might consider changing the display errors
> setting to see what warning fopen generates if the file fails to open.  From
> http://us.php.net/fopen
>  Errors/Exceptions
>
> If the open fails, the function an error of level *E_WARNING* is
> generated. You may use @<http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.errorcontrol.php>to suppress this warning.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:15 PM, sean greenslade <zootboysean@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I have this snippet of code that is supposed to read the apache access log
>> and display it:
>> <?php
>>    $myFile = "/var/log/httpd/access_log";
>>    $fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');
>>    $theData = fread($fh, filesize($myFile));
>>    fclose($fh);
>>    echo
>>    "This weeks apache log (clears every sunday morning):".
>>    substr($theData,0,2000);
>> ?>
>> For some reason, it displays the logs when I run the php file thru
>> terminal:
>> php -f /web/apache.php
>>
>> but not when I access it thru the web. when I browse to it, it just
>> displays
>> the static text ("This weeks apache log (clears every sunday morning):"),
>> not the log text.
>>
>> Very confused,
>> zootboy
>>
>
>


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