Question

I have a folder mounted on the server that points to an sftp site.
I need to check via php whether we can see the folders inside it.

I tried

file_exists("/path/to/the/mount/folder");

but its returning false (which I kind of expected), I can navigate to it through the file system and using terminal.

(also tried is_dir && is_link)

Here’s how I mounted it from the shell

echo PASS | sshfs UNAME@URL: /path/goes/here -o password_stdin

Answer 1

This turned out to be a configuration problem.

In /etc/fuse.conf I uncommented user_allow_other

Then mounted with this command

echo PASS | sshfs UNAME@URL: /path/goes/here -o password_stdin,allow_other

Normal file/folder checking/reading functions will then work fine