writing files on to apache with php
 

i have an apache server, and i'm writng php scripts for a website. now i'm trying to create and write to files for my website, however, apache server seem to be not creating the files. i ran my script offline of the server and it created a new file, however when i run it on the server it doesn't create the file. i looked in the httpd.conf wiht no success

thanks
djgerbavore

hi
what i think is that apache uses userbane apache to perform all operaion.
that might be hindering it

so try giving more rights to username apacahe or try writing to a diferent directory

regards

i'll try that,

but i'm running apache as root, and my php scripts are creating/writing files to the htdocs directory, so everything is on the server side. do i still need to give rights to my directory?

also i'm a noobie to apache web server. so you been have to point me in the right directions.
thanks,
djgerbavore

hi there
thats what i am saying
u r running apache as root user but apache performs all actions w.r.t to user apache

also see ur logs, u will get some erorr msgs in ur webserver logs

regards

thank you,


sorry i'm alittle new to apache web server

you have been alot of help

sorry to brother you, but this i'm trying to meet a deadline,
you mean i need to use hte chmod command, or is there something in the httpd.conf script that i need to look in, sorry i'm not on my linux box right now, so i can't check what the log files say.

thanks

hey did that sort ut ur problem??

regards

you have been alot of help

sorry to brother you, but this i'm trying to meet a deadline,
you mean i need to use hte chmod command, or is there something in the httpd.conf script that i need to look in, sorry i'm not on my linux box right now, so i can't check what the log files say.

thanks

hi there

no do not bother me at all!!!
i get to learn a lot from all these

well what u can try is assign different permission to ur directory so that the user apache can access that also

regards

i just have one more question, (sorry for being such a newbie), but i don't know how to change apache user permissions.

I look on the web and no success, i tried about thousadn different chown apache /var/www/htdocs/ variation.
but i keep getting a permission deny error in my apache error log. It writes permission deny to open stream(file.dat).

Is there somehting i'm doin wrong...

thank you for help,

djgerbavore

hi there

before changing pemissions for user apache
one thing u need to consider is
if u give full permissions to pache then it cvan change a lot of things with out ur permision

so try changing thepermisions of the file that u want to edit

chmod 0777 <name of file with path>

this will make the file
read. write. xecute for all users

try this

regards

you are the best!!!!! chmod 0777 worked. i can read/write files! i'm very happy you have no idea, how good this feels,


i might actually make my deadline now!!!!!

thank so much

djgerbavore

gooooddd!!
i too have a great feeling that it worked for u now!!

by the way where is PA??

regards

pa is in usa , pennslyavia