Php Mail() Problems On Local Server

[Ice IT Support]

Hello,

I am running a test Ubuntu linux server with Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL. When I run a PHP mail() function to my personal email, it returns this error:

Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required '/home/wheeler_jonathon/public_html/mail.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in Unknown on line 0

I read that my ISP might be filtering port 25, and I will work to disable this and see if that changes anything.

 

Other helpful things to know:

-I'm not using PHP pear (I'm not sure it it is installed, however. It shouldn't be)

-My httpd.conf is blank (would that affect anything?)

-I am completely comfortable with using the terminal (That is how I got this thing running anyway )

 

Thank you to anyone who can help!

[soerganda]

It looks like your problem is permissions related.

Make sure all files and directories have these permissions and ownerships.

Directories: 755

Files: 644

 

Hopefull help

[Ice IT Support]

Thanks, it works! I can't believe I didn't think of that. But how do you set it so that newly created directories default to 755 and newly created/uploaded files default to 644?

[Byron]

It's already set up by default to chmod directories to 755 and files to 644.

[Ice IT Support]

No, default for files is 600 and folders is 700. I forgot to mention I am using vsftpd. What does HelioHost use? I checked /etc/vsftpd.conf for options, but found nothing. Also, FileZilla displays file/folder permissions as -rw------ instead of numbers.

[Byron]

cPanel's default are 755 & 644.

 

755 = rwxr-xr-x

644 = rw-r--r--

 

http://byrondallas.heliohost.org/tools/chmod_calculator-string.html

[Guest xaav]

Put this in your conf file:

 

local_umask = 755
anon_umask = 755

[soerganda]

cPanel's default are 755 & 644.

others ? just optionall.

 

Glad your problem got solved!

#heliohost staff wannabe# :D

[Ice IT Support]

Put this in your conf file:

 

local_umask = 755
anon_umask = 755

Which file? /etc/vsftpd.conf or httpd.conf?

[Guest xaav]

/etc/vsftpd.conf

 

Then, run /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

[Ice IT Support]

After doing that nothing funcioned at all, so I purged vsftpd and installed pure-ftpd (what I believe HelioHost is using). The problem seems to have resolved itself now (the mail problem as well). Thank you so much everyone for your help!

[Byron]

Your right. heliohost uses pure ftpd. I'm sorry I didn't know that was what you were asking in your previous post.

 

http://byrondallas.heliohost.org/helio/cgi-bin/ftp_stevie.cgi

[Ice IT Support]

That's ok. It was a silly question anyway since I can easily look in my FTP messages and find it there.