t3h PHP

[Doogee]

okie schmokies


Heres the firs problem ive encoutered.
Ive got a PHP script that writes to a file (visitors.txt) the info of the visitors.

The problem is that the script cant open visitors.txt i get the error


Warning: fopen("visitors.txt", "a+") - Permission denied in /var/www/html/index.php on line 10

so i suppose i have to make an emply visitors.txt file and chmod it. But what do i chmod it to?

[Void Main]

You have to chmod it such that the ID that your web server runs under has access to write to it. On Red Hat that user is "apache", I assume Mandrake is the same (do a "ps aux | grep http" to see the user your httpd runs under). If it is indeed "apache" then do this:

# cd /your/web/dir
# touch visitors.txt
# chown yourusername:apache visitors.txt
# chmod 660 visitors.txt

Which will make the file owned by you, assigned the group "apache" and is writable by both you and members of the "apache" group and noone else. Since httpd runs under the user "apache" which is a member of the "apache" group then anybody using your php script through the apache server will be able to write to the file.

[Doogee]

sweet thanks that worked like a charm void main

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[Void Main]

Nothing really easy. I don't really see what the problem is. Don't give them an ID if you don't want them connecting. If you don't trust them on one operating system then you shouldn't trust them on any...