getcwd not working

[roycrom]

Hi all,

I've got a strange problem. I have a script that uses the getcwd() function. For some unknown reason it stopped working halfway through today. I am still investigationg this but in the mean time I replaced the following

$STARTINGDIR = getcwd();

with this

$STARTINGDIR = dirname(__FILE__);

Does anybody know what the difference would be between the content of these two variables? if any?

Thanks for any help you can give

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roycrom

 

[Bastien]

Was there a change in the operating environment? Some update installed or a feature activated or a permission on something changed?

Bastien

Cat, the other other white meat

 

[skiflyer]

getcwd() can change depending on how the script is launched, or by use of the chdir() function.

dirname(__FILE__) is always going to tell you the location of the script in question.

 

[roycrom]

Hi,

Thanks for your replies,

I had changed the group for the

http://www apache

user which I think broke this so I restored it from the day before I changed it, this fixed the problem but I am still confused as to why this stopped working as the apache user still had permissions for the directories that the script was running from.

I am really having trouble getting things to work without breakiong other things but hey... back to pestering the boss for a test server. Not good changing things live but I have no choice at the moment.

Thanks again

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Somethings come from nothing, nothing seems to come from somethings - SFA - Guerilla

roycrom