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Posted by Phil Ewington - 43 Plc on 02/17/05 13:54
> Jason Wong wrote:
> > 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!
>
> I stand corrected.
>
> In addition to read/write access to the file itself, Apache must have at
> least eXecute (directory listing) permission to the directory containing
> that file.
>
> /home being owned by root is not the issue -- But if it's not something
> the apahce user can 'ls /home' and get the contents of, then you've got a
> problem.
Thanks for all the input guys. The cron job suggestion is a great idea and I
will go with this over using sudo. Thanks again.
- Phil Ewington.
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