* Thus wrote Minuk Choi:
> hey gang,
>
> I have a fedora core 3, with standard PHP and MySQL included with the distribution.
>
> I'm having a rather odd problem.
>
> the following script(mailTest.php)
>
> <?PHP
> $result = mail('me@xxxxxxxx', 'test subject', 'test message');
>
> if (!$result)
> echo "FAILURE";
> else
> echo "SUCCESS";
> ?>
>
> does NOT work if I access it from the web
>
> BUT
>
> if I were to execute it as root on the Command prompt
>
> php mailTest.php
>
> It executes correctly and I get mail.
>
> This feels like the apache user is lacking access over sendmail or something... since as root I can execute the script from the CLI without a problem, but from the web, I get a failure.
You're probably on the right track with this.
Check your php.ini settings for sendmail_path.
Also.. the default setting for sendmail_path is 'sendmail -t -i' so
if sendmail isn't in the path for your webuser then it wont get
executed. To fix this, specifiy in you php.ini with the
sendmail_path the absolute sendmail executable. ie:
sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i"
HTH,
Curt
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