Posted by Richard Lynch on 02/09/05 18:35

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.

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