path to php binary not found

If you have shell access (telnet), once logged in, use which php and that should give you the location to use.

If you don't have shell, try one of these:

save a php page with just the following: <? echo system('which php'); ?> and then call the page, this should tell you the location of PHP.

if that doesn't work, try checking one of the paths listed under path in the ENVIRONMENT section of the output of this code: <? phpinfo(); ?>. Notes: 1. On both my servers, the correct location was the last path listed. 2. These are the PATHS, not the location, so you will have to add /php to the end when you try them.

-Greg

What version of PHP is it? For PHP 5, the binary should be inside a bin/ folder something like this: /usr/lib/php5/bin/.

However, for standard installations of PHP (any version), there should be a link to the binary, called /usr/bin/php or /bin/php. Run whereis php in your shell and identify the path.

Whatever you think the path of the binary is, you can test it by going into it in your shell and try running ./php --version. If it prints the version and copyright information, then you've got the right path.

Edt: since you have Webmin, you can run shell commands by going to the "Command shell" page, if you weren't aware.

Also, what OS and distribution are you on? In Debian GNU/Linux, for instance, you'll have to install the php4-cli or php5-cli package to get the binary.

phpinfo didn't look helpful on my machines.

Let's establish if you have shell access first. Do you have shell access?

If you do not have direct shell access, are you able to use the "Command shell" in Webmin? (Assuming this is your Webmin account -- if not, is there an equivalent facility in you control panel?)

Secondly, what OS/distribution are you on?

Any idea which distribution of Linux? Different ones will use different commands to search and install packages, which you may need to...

The default PHP on Fedora Core 4 is php-5.0.4. The package provides a file /usr/bin/php. The path to the binary is /usr/bin, and the executable binary is /usr/bin/php.

If you do not have this file, you might have an older version of PHP, or you are using non-standard paths, or your installation went wrong at some point.

When you run whereis php in shell, you get no results? You may need to run updatedb in shell as the root user once first, so it caches the file paths on your system for whereis. (Note: updatedb takes a while to process, but you only need to do it once every so often.)

Post the results of your whereis search here.