Some PHP does not execute [SOLVED]

svancouw · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 57 Location: California

I just finished getting PHP working on my system, evidenced by postfixadmin (index.php) running. On the other hand, I have a PHP script (a file called by html on a web page) that is supposed to e-mail a completed form. This process works on another unix server (RedHat 7.6, Apache 1.3.33 and PHP 4.4.2.) that I do not manage. On my system it looks as if it does complete (the if-else function seems to work, as the finishing echo thank you message appears), but the e-mail is never sent. The files are under /home/username/public_html/ for a secondary website of mine.

Is there possibly a tie-in to my mail server that I'm not familiar with, or do I not have my php set up correctly? Postfix is started on boot.

I am running dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r4, mod_php for apache-2.0.58-r2, and postfix-2.2.10 (if it makes a difference). I see no error messages related to this. The only Add-Type I have listed in 70_mod_php5.conf is applicaton/x-httpd-php, but from what I can tell this is all that's required.

If you need any other info from me please let me know, and I'll provide it quickly.

Thank you very much for your assistance.

Sean

Hagar · Guru Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 445

By default php will use `sendmail -t -i` to send mail.
Can you send an email using that command from your system?

svancouw · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 57 Location: California

I am a little embarrassed to admit this, but it turned out to be a firewall problem with my ISP. They block port 25, and in /var/log/messages I was getting a delay and timeout error for sending the e-mail.

I called them and they turned it off for me, and now I am able to receive the e-mail generated by the PHP script.

Thank you for your help!