Just to follow-up on this in case anyone else experiences this problem. It was permissions. From: stpetersn@xxxxxxxxxxx CC: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: is_readable fails with a variable parameter Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:19:54 -0400 > That is the reason. I assumed the file already existed. is_readable is part > of the cache affected functions: > > http://php.net/manual/en/function.clearstatcache.php > > Try doing that and see if that makes a difference. > I thought of that too actually. The PHP API has a clear cache and I tried that. Didn't work. Never knew of clearstatcache(). But I just tried it too and there is no difference. I has to be the user/permissions. I will just have to wait for that sys admin guy to become available. I just wanted to make sure there wasn't something I was doing/not doing. Thanks for you all your help here.