strange behavior - PHP question...

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Jan 23, 2012, at 3:26 PM, William H. Magill wrote:

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


I use this a lot:

chmod -R 0664 docroot
chmod -R +X docroot


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)