Thanks Curt.
I decided after a while to chalk this up as incomplete installation of Fedora Core 3, and just removed the Apache-PHP-MySQL RPMs and replaced them with their sources. I compiled them and now everything works!
NOTE: Since re-installing those three fixed the problem, there was no issue with Sendmail, probably just with PHP/Apache.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Curt Zirzow" <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PHP" <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: fedora core 3 mail() not working from web
* 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 -- Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
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