Problems with a PHP shell script Could not open input file

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Ok  I am trying to create an email logger  that uses a PHP shell script  I have set up CPanel to pipe emails to my script  I am sure this is all configured properly  However I am having problems with the script  well any script for that matter when running it from the shell   here is an example      usr local bin php    q  lt  php     Read the message from STDIN     fd   fopen  php   stdin    r     email          This will be the variable holding the data  while   feof  fd      email    fread  fd  1024     fclose  fd      Saves the data into a file     fdw   fopen  mail txt    w     fwrite  fdw   email   fclose  fdw      Script End      gt    Real simple  right  Read from STDIN and write to a file   I thought something was wrong  not able to read STDIN for some reason  Hosting provider allows it  allow url open and allow url include are both on   When executing the script via SSH I get the following error  Could not open input file    q  So once again I thought that was the script telling me  that is could not read from STDIN  So I tried just a simple script      usr local bin php    q  lt  php echo  Hello World     gt    Same thing  Could not open input file    q  So it appears that the PHP program is telling me it is unable to open the script  The script is located in  HOME mail forward  CHMOD 755  and the script itself is CHMOD 755  as well the file mail txt is CHMOD 755 I am really stumped on this

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Windows Character Encoding Issue  I was having the same issue  I was editing files in PDT Eclipse on Windows and WinSCPing them over  I just copied and pasted the contents into a nano window  saved  and now they worked  Definitely some Windows character encoding issue  and not a matter of Shebangs or interpreter flags

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I just experienced this issue and it was because I was trying to run a script from the wrong directory   doh  It happens to the best of us

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I know its stupid but in my case i was outside of my project folder i didn t have spark file

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When you use php CLI argument -q doesn t exist   I had the same problem when I wrote script in the Windows  eclipse  and I tried run them on Linux  Every line in file from Windows is ended by  r n  I had to delete  r in first line that contained parser path   When  r was deleted from first line  mcedit shown  r  as  M  script ran correctly

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For me the problem was I had to use  usr bin php-cgi command instead of just  usr bin php  php-cgi is the command run when accessed thru web browser   php is the CLI command line command   Not sure why php cli is not working  but running with php-cgi instead fixed the problem for me

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Have you tried      usr local bin php   I e  without the -q part  That s what the error message  Could not open input file  -q  means  The first argument to php if it doesn t look like an option is the name of the PHP file to execute  and -q is CGI only   EDIT  A couple of  non-related  tips    You don t need to terminate the last block of PHP with   gt   In fact  it is often better not to  When executed on the command line  PHP defines the global constant STDIN to fopen  php   stdin    r    You can use that instead of opening  php   stdin  a second time   fd   STDIN

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I landed up on this page when searching for a solution for    Could not open input file    error  Here s my 2 cents for this error   I faced this same error while because I was using parameters in my php file path like this    usr bin php -q  home    public html cron job php id 1234   But I found out that this is not the proper way to do it  The proper way of sending parameters is like this    usr bin php -q  home    public html cron job php id 1234   Just replace the     with a space

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Due to windows encoding issue for me  I experienced this  Could not open input file  error   Then I obtained the file using wget from another linux system  and the error did not occur     The error ws only occurring for me when the file transited through windows

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