Re: Fwd: php not reading file properly

[Micah Gersten <micah@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If the directory above it doesn't have execute privileges, it won't be
able to read it either.
Also, why not use the PHP5 function file_get_contents()?

Thank you,
Micah Gersten
onShore Networks
Internal Developer
http://www.onshore.com



sean greenslade wrote:
> 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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