MaxG

Problem solved! The ZIP files seemed to be corrupt; FTP-ing them over the existing ones and it worked. Thanks for the file_exists(); how could I forget?!

thanks! I get FALSE I have compared paths: Unable to access /var/www/vhosts/domain.net/subdomains/www.name/httpdocs/resources/Music/MIDIs/Hermann/Hermann13.zip ... and actually echoing the $strPathFileName -- and they match. What puzzles me is that XLS, PDF and MP3 files are served nicely by my code. Not so ZIP; yet the content-type = application/zip I have just uploaded the table with the file details; just in case they are corrupt -- same problem.

I run a dev site locally on Windows and the real site on a hosting provider on LINUX. PHP5, XAMP, etc. Locally my fopen works. On the web server it throws an error: "Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: Unable to access" filepath/name The file exists on both servers; upper/lower case is correct; so are access rights. I noticed the error only today; this was working for the last 7 months; the function serves a range of content-types; just tested XLS and it works. Now I am stuck This line throws the error: $handle = fopen($strPathFileName, 'rb'); $strPathFileName uses / only Any pointers appreciated... thanks.