failed to open stream: No such file or directory

[Jessica]

I'm trying to copy an existing file using a php script, run on the command line.

I've tried copy() and also a script from the comments on copy() http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.copy.php#102320

 

No matter how I try to open the file I get " failed to open stream: No such file or directory".

I tried changing the name of the file, and the ext, and both.

The file does exist, and if I run cp old new, the file gets copied fine.

 

Current code

<?php
$source = '/www/documents/myfile.pdf';
$destination = '/www/documents/mypdf.pdf.bak';
copy($source, $destination);
?>

 

Warning: copy(/www/documents/myfile.pdf): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/cron/historic.php on line 3

 

~$ ls /www/hua/compucom113dev/client/documents/
myfile.pdf
~$ cp /www/documents/myfile.pdf /www/documents/myfile.pdf.bak
~$ ls /www/hua/compucom113dev/client/documents/
myfile.pdf
myfile.pdf.bak

 

I had chmod in the script at one point to make sure the directory had the permissions needed but it didn't make a difference so I removed it. I can add it back if someone can help explain what to set it to. I was doing 0777 then back to 0755 at the end.

[Muddy_Funster]

All I can think of is checking the availability of each directory, as running from shell could have a different root than running from a web script

$dir1    = '/';
$files1 = scandir($dir1);
var_dump($files1);

$dir2    = '/www';
$files2 = scandir($dir2);
var_dump($files2);

$dir3    = '/www/documents';
$files3 = scandir($dir3);
var_dump($files3);

probably something you've done already, but it's all I got, sorry.