[Tfug] writing files from PHP

[keith smith]

That is a very good question.  One I have been wrestling with for a while.

I have found several things to address this.  I'm hoping others on the list will replay to this post.

The version of PHP is not relevant as far as I know.  Most of the world is now running PHP5 or is in the process of upgrading.

I find changing the directory permissions to 777 and the file permissions to 666 allow for reading and writing a file using PHP.

Having a directory set to 777 is not secure and I think most will advise not to do this.

The solution might be to set the ownership of the directory and possibly it's contents to the same user as Apache.  I seem to remember doing so on a project a year or so ago.

The only problem with changing directory ownerships (chmod)  in a shared hosting environment you probably do not have permission to do so.

 


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Keith Smith
(520) 207-9877
PHP Programmer



--- On Tue, 6/17/08, Paul Scott <waterhorse at ultrasw.com> wrote:
From: Paul Scott <waterhorse at ultrasw.com>
Subject: [Tfug] writing files from PHP
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 11:06 PM

Dumb question:  With permissions 644 I can open and write files with  
version 4.4.8 of PHP on a web server.  With the same version of PHP  
and the same file permissions I can't open the files for writing on  
this Mac PPC or my home computer.   The code uses fopen().

I haven't found any obvious options with phpinfo() that give me a clue.

TIA for any help,

Paul Scott




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