Posted by IamtheEvster on 09/26/07 22:11

Hi there,

I'm using fopen for the first time and I know I'm running into a
permissions problem, but I can't seem to resolve it and any help would
be greatly appreciated.

I'm running PHP5 and Apache on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.

I've verified (by looking in httpd.conf) that Apache is running as
user "apache" and group "apache". So, that's the user/group that PHP
should be running under, right?

The following line of code in my PHP file which, as I understand,
should open a pointer to a file, and create the file if it doesn't
exist (which it doesn't):
$writeFile = fopen($directory . $filename, "w");

This generates the following error:
Warning: fopen(/home/chroot/exports/webleads_200709261803.csv)
[function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /path/to/
filename.php on line 87

I've tried changing ownership of the /home/chroot/exports/ directory
to have the group be "apache" and then done a chmod 775 on the
directory. Still get the error.

In fact, if I chmod 777 on the directory, thus giving every user
permission to write to the dir, I still get the error. I totally
don't understand that...

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm really at my wits end at
this point.

Thanks,

Evan

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