strange behavior - PHP question...

[William H. Magill]

On Jan 23, 2012, at 2:10 AM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:

> William H. Magill wrote:
>> However, when I visit php.net and follow their tutorial, the very first example fails.
>> 
> ...
>> 
>> What happens is "a blank page" -- no source code,  no "hello world," no errors I can find -- nada.
>> php.net implies that something is not configured correctly.
>> 
>> But as I mentioned, phpinfo.php, runs fine and outputs (apparently) valid information.
>> 
>> Any hints on what/where I should look for ?
>> 
> 
> Permission problems on the files and the filepath is the first problem
> I'ld look for. make sure that all folders in the whole path have 'chmod
> a+x' and all files are 'chmod a+r'

Duh … 

My default umask is 077 :)

a+r was the problem.  (both the working and non-working files were in the same directory so the path was ok.)

What threw me completely was that I was looking for 404 errors in the access log, and instead was getting 500s.

I guess  that's one I'll have to remember.

Thanks!


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William H. Magill                                                            
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