[ciapug] php interpreter errors

David Champion ciapug@cialug.org
Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:58:43 -0500


Ryan O'Rourke wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 14:47, David Champion wrote:
>  
>
>>Ryan O'Rourke wrote:
>>
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>>>When trying to run the following php script from the command line, why
>>>does it work when I do:
>>>	php test.php
>>>but not when I do:
>>>	./test.php
>>>??
>>>
>>>#!/usr/local/bin/php
>>><?php
>>>$test =  "testing - testing";
>>>echo $test;
>>>?>
>>>
>>>
>>>The error I get is ": bad interpreter: No such file or directory"
>>>      
>>>
>
>  
>
>>At the command prompt, type "which php"... it will show you if it's in 
>>your path. Also look at ls -l /usr/local/bin/php - could be that it 
>>doesn't exist.
>>    
>>
>
>Again, I should have mentioned these things in the initial post as well.
>
># which php
>/usr/local/bin/php
># ls /usr/local/bin/php
>/usr/local/bin/php
>  
>
do "ls -l". That will show the permissions, size, and if it's a broken 
symbollic link or anything like that.

-dc