#!/usr/bin/php sometimes not working on 12.10 server

Question

I've recently moved some working code from a 12.04 server to a 12.1 server. Everything working well except....

Some of my scripts include #!/usr/bin/php -q at the top so I can run them from the command line without explicitly invoking php/.

Some of these work find, some others do not work at all - I get the error message:

Exception: Zend Extension ./makeTracks.php does not exist

There is a correct link from /usr/bin/php to etc/alternatives/php and then on to /usr/bin/php5

I don't know if something changed between 12.04 and 12.10 that is causing this or what else might cause it. I'm stumped.

Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 01 '13 at 04:20

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It turned out that this problem was caused by php files that has been uploaded with Windows line endings. Once I corrected the line endings using dos2unix the problem went away.

answered Feb 01 '13 at 04:20

RoyHB

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This answer needs 100 more up votes. This is incredibly obscure and was hard for me to find, but a perfect answer. – Kerry Jones Oct 16 '14 at 22:58
Debian Jessie and this still works! +1 – Rui F Ribeiro Jun 28 '16 at 09:37
Thanks Thanks Thanks a million times ... I've been working on this for more than 24 hours +1000000 – Nildarar Jun 19 '18 at 14:37

#!/usr/bin/php sometimes not working on 12.10 server

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