Question

While using PHP cli in ubuntu i got apache as web server i cant read the file which i can while using it in the browser.
And about the error it just shows nothing and the next like i just used this code for my testing purposes :

<?
$handle = fopen("testFile.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
    while (($buffer = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) {
    echo $buffer;
    }
    if (!feof($handle)) {
        echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n";
    }
if(!is_readable($handle)
{
 die("Not readable");
}
fclose($handle);
}
?>

How do i fix that ?

EDIT :

After removing the ‘@’ before fopen i got the following error

fopen(testFile.txt): failed to open
stream: No such file or directory in
/var/www/log/ka.php on line 2

Answer 1

When you run your script through CLI, it uses your shell’s working directory, in opposition to the file’s directory (which Apache hands as the current directory). This is important for you, since your fopen call depends on a relative path; and relative paths are resolved relatively to the working directory, not to the script.

To have your script behave like it does with Apache, you either need to cd /var/www/log prior to running the php command, or add this at the beginning of your PHP script:

chdir(dirname(__FILE__));