File_exists always false in laravel 4

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I have written small CMS in Laravel 4 and I was working on it using wamp. Application was in www folder and everything was working fine. When I have finished with development, I moved an application to my live server and I have put application in root folder of my hosting (folder above public_html). In some functions I'm checking if some files exist, and while I was on wamp, everything worked, but now file_exists() always returns false. Folder permissions of the folder where files are stored are set to 755, and files are with same permissions.

I have already tried clearstatcache() and Safe mode cannot be an issue since it was removed in PHP 5.4. Any other ideas?

if(file_exists('public_html/repo/images/testimage.jpg')){
    //do something
}
else{
    echo "error";
}

I have checked several times, and file does exists if I try to access it via url

Turn off safe mode using safe_mode_include_dir? Also, ls -l /home/user/public_html/root/ and add the output to your question. — Amal
– Amal, Commented Jul 18, 2013 at 20:40
I'd bet that the path to the files is different, and you're either using a leading / when you shouldn't be, or you've omitted it when you shouldn't. Can you post some code please? — user1864610
– user1864610, Commented Jul 18, 2013 at 20:41
safe_mode_include_dir is already at no value. I thought it was php 5.4 and it is 5.3.26. Safe mode is off. Also I have added sample code above — Vuk Stanković
– Vuk Stanković, Commented Jul 18, 2013 at 20:49

Homme Sauvage · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-18 20:58:36Z

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Well, first you said you were in WAMP, it could be that folders were having uppercases. Remember, windows is not case-sensitive for folder while linux is.

Second, where's laravel's index.php file? (It's generaly in public folder), file_exists() is relative to it, so if your installation is: public_html/public/index.php and repo/images is on public folder you should check for: file_exists('repo/images...');

Laravel is designed to keep its files outside of public access, so I suggest you put laravel's files and folders in the root / while moving everything in public folder to public_html. This way, you could check file existence relatively to public_html folder.

file_exists('repo/images...');
file_exists('../app/views/hello.blade.php');
...

answered Jul 18, 2013 at 20:58

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Vuk Stanković Over a year ago

Everything is in the root and basically my public folder is public_html

Homme Sauvage Over a year ago

so don't include 'public_html' in the path

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