php script works fine in browser, bug gives permision error as crontab

**odoisc** · May 20, 2003 06:22

I have a php script that should create some static pages every few minutes, and if I just run the script in my browser it works fine. Blank screen, so no errors and the static files are written correctly.

If I set it up as crontab however I have errors like this in my mailbox

Code:

 
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  fopen(/home/noxanet/public_html/_statics/static_index.php) 
[<a href="http://www.php.net/function.fopen">function.fopen</a>]: failed to create stream: 
Permission denied in <b>/home/noxanet/public_html/test/cron_minute.php</b> on line <b>34</b><br />
<br />

So it actually runs and thus the crontab command is ok, yet it has errors I dont have when running the script.

The permissions for that directory currently are 773

Whats going wrong here ?

**anode** · May 20, 2003 06:25

Are you accessing it directly through cron or through a "browser"(for example "wget myscript.php" or "lynx myscript.php")?

**odoisc** · May 20, 2003 06:31

no, directly

the cron command is like "php path/to/that/script.php"

**anode** · May 20, 2003 06:40

Change php to lynx and see if that helps.

**odoisc** · May 20, 2003 06:58

new error :

Your Terminal type is unknown!
Enter a terminal type: [vt100]
TERMINAL TYPE IS SET TO vt100

My first guess : maybe this is because its just php, and doesnt have html headers and <body> and such ?

**anode** · May 20, 2003 07:03

That shouldn't matter, it's still being served as HTTP. Is the URL fully qualified?

**odoisc** · May 20, 2003 07:12

fully qualified -> you mean the full path with http://www etc ?

no it wasnt when I first tried it with lynx, now I changed it . It seems those static files are being written, and no sign of permission errors any more.

Thanks for that so far.

And any weird errors about lynx that I recieve per email, I may as well ignore them ? as long as the script works it doesnt matter ?

**anode** · May 20, 2003 07:32

What kind of weird errors are you receiving? Congrats on getting it working.

**odoisc** · May 20, 2003 08:08

Code:

  Your Terminal type is unknown!

  Enter a terminal type: [vt100] 
TERMINAL TYPE IS SET TO vt100
<A href="http://www.noxa.net[m[K[0;7mwww.noxa.net[m[K0;7mMaking">www.noxa.net[m[K[0;7mwww.noxa.net[m[K0;7mMaking HTTP connection to www.noxa.net[m[0;7mSending HTTP request.[m[K[0;7mHTTP request sent; waiting for response.[m

[24;1H[?1l>

well, "weird error".

on second thought this might as well be lynx telling he found the file and loaded it.

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