FC3, PHP 4.3.9, and fopen PERMISSION DENIED

Cottsay · 06-25-2005, 01:23 AM

I've been using PHP for years with RedHat 9 - I recently switched to Fedora Core 3 and all of my scripts with fopen for write died...it says permission denied. Yes I CHMOD'd the file and the containing folder to 777 and it still won't work. Someone said it might have to do with SELinux but I dunno. I'm sure the scripts are fine - I even tried them on an old machine. PHP fopen's a file for read just fine. It just won't write. Is there a .htaccess file or something in httpd.conf that I am missing?

Thanks much!

cottsay

david_ross · 06-25-2005, 06:02 AM

It could be to do with SELinux. Are you using it?

Where are you trying to save the file?

Cottsay · 06-25-2005, 11:05 AM

RedHat 9 didn't have anything to do with SELinux. I just switched to Fedora about 3 months ago. I have no idea what SELinux does but I did a full installation with SELinux enabled. I have no idea how to control SELinux either.

david_ross · 06-25-2005, 11:54 AM

It depends on the policy you are using. Take a look at this document:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/

Cottsay · 06-25-2005, 02:39 PM

Alright - I set SELinux into permissive mode and the write worked. SELinux is the problem. Is there any way I can fix it JUST for HTTPD without setting SELinux to permissive?