Fatal error: spawn ENOENT when running grunt php

[sindresorhus]

Fatal error: spawn ENOENT when running grunt php

[sindresorhus]

Do you have PHP installed and available in your $PATH?

Can you post the full output?

Also this line is wrong: urls: ['http://localhost:<%= connect.options.port %>/index.html']

Should be: urls: ['http://localhost:<%= php.dist.options.port %>/index.html']

[teeli]

I guess you can qualify this as PEBCAK.

I fixed the urls line and a couple of other things (php was already in path though), but now grunt php outputs php --help. I'll keep digging.

[edouard-lopez]

Got a similar problem.

grunt php                                                                                                                                  3 ↵
Running "php:dist" (php) task
chdir(): No such file or directory
Fatal error: spawn ENOENT

Not sure if my config is right as my grunt file is a lot more complex due to yeoman, please check my grunt file.
Already done:

• add an entry to livereload task: '<%= yeoman.app %>/*.php' ;
• add an entry to copy task: '{,*/}*.{php,phpc}' ;
• update the urls in mocha task ;
• register a new php task (doesn't it override the existing one?).

[sindresorhus]

@edouard-lopez Does the folder subfolder exist?

[AdamHolwerda]

I had the same issue - of course it was because subfolder didn't exist. I just removed that line so it would default to my root folder.

@sindresorhus Is it obvious enough that the user is supposed to rename subfolder to whatever directory they actually have? Maybe the default value for base could be dir_name or path_to_dir?

[sindresorhus]

@AdamHolwerda if you've read the docs, then yes.

I've removed it from the example as it weren't essential.

[timelf123]

Not the same issue, but I had set up middleware php-cgi according to this guide: https://coderwall.com/p/bal2_a

One of our developers updated his OSX and it changed up his PHP configuration, so he needed to use homebrew to reinstall php-cgi (see guide above) and everything worked again.