read_file, file_exists return nothing

[eluser]attos[/eluser]
Did you mean readfile() instead of read_file()?

I had the same problem with readfile() returning an empty file (zero length). I solved it using:

Code:

$fp = fopen($path, 'rb');
fpassthru($fp);

readfile() worked in my development environment (WinXP + xampp), but failed under FreeBSD and Apache.