imap extension works from shell but gets Permission denied when running from apache

leifern

I am having problems with a script after upgrading form FC2 to FC4.

The script runs fine from shell (tried running the script as user apache and everything worked fine), but when I run it from my webrowser I get this error message:

Warning: imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn't open stream {localhost:143}INBOX in /var/www/developer/parsemail/masketest.php on line 34
can't connect: Can't connect to localhost,143: Permission denied

Line 34 goes
$mbox = imap_open("{{$host}:143}{$mailboxToRead}", $userName, $password) or die("can't connect: ".imap_last_error());

I've got Apache version 2.0.54 and PHP 5.0.4

My imapserver is dovecot.

Need some help to understand this behaviour. i have reinstalled apache and php but it still does not work.

Regards
Leif

goldbug

Have you run it as the Apache user, from the shell?

leifern

goldbug wrote:
Have you run it as the Apache user, from the shell?

yup, worked when running from shell as user apache.

leifern

I also have a problem with fopen

Just for testing I ran the script.
<?php
$url = "http://www.bbc.com/index.html";
$fp = fopen($url, "r");
$text = fread($fp, '200');
echo $text;
?>

First from shell:
[apache@server test]$ php fopen.php
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" content="0; URL=http://www.bbc.co.uk/?ok">
<TITLE>British Broadcasting Corporation </TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY BG[apache@server test]$

Seems ok

then from a browser

Warning: fopen(http://www.bbc.com/index.html) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/developer/test/fopen.php on line 3

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /var/www/developer/test/fopen.php on line 4

It must be a security setting in the apache and/or php config files. I just don't know where. Tried installing another machine with FC4. Same problem.

leifern

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/343492

Now it's working fine.