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robjmills
Asked: 2010-08-07 07:02:13 +0800 CST

Command line PHP script no longer working

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A previously working command line PHP script has stopped working - when i run it now it returns this error:

[root@server dir]# ./custom.php
Extension './custom.php' not present.

If i run the script like this it works:

[root@server dir]# php custom.php

For a number of reasons i cannot do this though. I have read something that implies this could be related to line endings but no idea how/why. i have edited this file recently on A Mac and a PC and FTP'd it to the server but i've been doing that for a long time without issues.

EDIT First line of script is:

#!/usr/bin/php -q

FYI The server is running CentOS 5.4

linux centos php command-line-interface

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    it is generally bad line endings.. using dos line endings. Try using dos2unix on the file and then run it

    dos2unix custom.php
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  2. Put: #!/usr/bin/php in the top of your script (before your PHP-brackets). And then chmod +x custom.php

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  3. If you edit a php file in windows, upload and run it on linux with command line method. You may encounter a running problem probably like that:

    [root@ItsCloud02 wsdl]# ./lnxcli.php

    Extension './lnxcli.php' not present.

    Or you may encounter some other strange problem. Care the enter key. In windows environment, enter key generate two binary characters '0D0A'. But in Linux, enter key generate just only a 'OA'. I wish it can help someone if you are using windows to code php and run it as a command line program on linux

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