Command line PHP script no longer working

Question

A previously working command line PHP script has stopped working - when i run it now it returns this error:

[root@server dir]# ./custom.php Extension './custom.php' not present. 

If i run the script like this it works:

[root@server dir]# php custom.php 

For a number of reasons i cannot do this though. I have read something that implies this could be related to line endings but no idea how/why. i have edited this file recently on A Mac and a PC and FTP'd it to the server but i've been doing that for a long time without issues.

EDIT First line of script is:

#!/usr/bin/php -q 

FYI The server is running CentOS 5.4

Answer 1

it is generally bad line endings.. using dos line endings. Try using dos2unix on the file and then run it

dos2unix custom.php 

Answer 2

Put: #!/usr/bin/php in the top of your script (before your PHP-brackets). And then chmod +x custom.php

Answer 3

If you edit a php file in windows, upload and run it on linux with command line method. You may encounter a running problem probably like that:

[root@ItsCloud02 wsdl]# ./lnxcli.php

Extension './lnxcli.php' not present.

Or you may encounter some other strange problem. Care the enter key. In windows environment, enter key generate two binary characters '0D0A'. But in Linux, enter key generate just only a 'OA'. I wish it can help someone if you are using windows to code php and run it as a command line program on linux