Set Up The Permissions So That My Script Can Simply Fopen A File For Writing.
I am rather new to PHP and a relative newbie to Linux too.
I have a webserver at home (Apache 2.0.48 on SuSe 9.0, PHP4).
I have some scripts, one of them needs to be able to create logfiles
somewhere on my machine. It must also later be able to read from and write
to these files again.
Sofar I get a permission error. I tried chmodding 666 or 777 the directory
in which the files could reside, to no avail.
How do I set up the permissions so that my script can simply fopen a file
for writing. Or if that's not the issue, what am I doing wrong or
overlooking ?
The errors:
Warning: fopen(logfileslog1.txt): failed to open stream: Permission denied
in script1.php on line 142
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in
script1.php on line 154
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in
script1.php on line 161
It's the first I am puzzled about, the 2nd and 3rd are a logical
consequence.
By the way, reading from and writing to a file I have previously created
myself with exactly the names I tried to get created by the script (echoed
the name, ok) is no problem at all.
So I don't think it has much to do with a safemode or open_basedir setting.
I also tried creating the scripts in the same dir the script itself resides.
Did not work either.
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