Posted by Jason Wong on 02/09/05 09:34

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 02:31, Richard Lynch wrote:
> Phil Ewington - 43 Plc wrote:
> > For some reason user_prefs will not open
> > for read/write even when I tested it under apache.apache and chmod'd
> > to 755,
> > perhaps because /home is owned by root?
>
> Something went wrong with this test.
>
> You SHOULD have been able to read/write that file in PHP, assuming
> 'apache' is the user PHP runs as. Use http://php.net/phpinfo to
> confirm that it really *IS* 'apache' user that's running apache/php.

It *will* fail if apache has no access to $HOME!

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