I am working on a open source project and I am discovering that permissions are my biggest source of errors. I am asking for opinions of what is the best way to setup a php program. For example

text files that need read/write to ->666

php files that need to open/read/write other files -> 666

directories -> 755

static html and text files -> 664

Do you think that this is the correct set up?
Is it common to have a "first run" code to check the permissions of the files?
Does the permissions change when you are moving the files back and forth between windoz and Linux?

Thanks

It depends what you are trying to do but I doubt having files writable by everyone on the system is what you are looking for. Try to limit the permissions to just the users that need access.

Hi david_ross,
Thanks for the response. I have discovered that the directories need to executable by everyone in order for the program to create text files via fopen. The server (not mine) is a Red Hat server and used the home directory for web files instead of /var/www like most. I wonder if that is the problem because apache is not the uid of the files.

I don't have these problems on my test server, aka my home pc, but because I wan't to release this program as an open source project I need to have it work in as many environments as possible.
Thanks