Posted by Hans Fredrik Nordhaug on 07/27/07 21:35

On 2007-07-27, davidkruger@techie.com wrote:
> On Jul 27, 12:19 pm, davidkru...@techie.com wrote:
>> On Jul 27, 12:00 pm, Hans Fredrik Nordhaug <han...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I'm trying to write to a file in the current directory - no remote
>> > files. The subject says it all - I can add that both the directory
>> > and the file is wordwritable. This happens on a (quite good) free
>> > hoster in Norway which doesn't use safe mode, running PHP 5.1.6 as the
>> > PHP info below shows ...
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>> > Test it at:http://home.no.net/moldevbk/fopen-test/?mode=w(write- fails)http://home.no.net/moldevbk/fopen-test/?mode=a(append- ok)http://home.no.net/moldevbk/fopen-test/p.php-PHP infohttp://home.no.net/moldevbk/fopen-test/fopen-test.phps-source code of test script.
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>> > I have searched the web and usenet, but not found this problem
>> > mentioned before. I do realize that I can work around the problem by
>> > truncating the file first and then appending to the empty file - but
>> > that is ugly as ...
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>> > Regards, Hans
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>> Just curious if instead of sending fopen w for the mode using wb? I
>> am not sure if that will make any difference or not, but might make it
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> If you set the permissions on the folder you are attempting to save to
> to chmod 707 you should be able to write the file.

The folder is already set to 777 as the URL
http://home.no.net/moldevbk/fopen-test/ tells you. How setting it to
something more restrictive will help beats me. (I did test and it of
course made no difference.)

Are you just suggesting all the standard answers in stead of reading
what I write? Thx for your time anyway.

Hans

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