Posted by frode.nordahl on 07/31/07 13:32

On Jul 28, 7:58 am, Hans Fredrik Nordhaug <han...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2007-07-27, Hans Fredrik Nordhaug wrote:
>
>
>
> > 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 ...
>
> > 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 info
> >http://home.no.net/moldevbk/fopen-test/fopen-test.phps- source code of test script.
>
> > 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 ...
>
> > Regards, Hans
>
> Just some additional information:
>
> If I delete the file I'm trying to write to, fopen with w mode creates
> the file (with owner "nobody") and no errors occurs after that.
> Apperently PHP is able to write to the file when it's owned by
> "nobody" with permission 644, but not when it's owned by the user
> "moldevbk" with permission 666. This is something I would expect to
> happen if safe mode was on, but it's not. Append mode works in both
> situation. The file is also truncated by the write fopen call in both
> situation.
>
> What is going?
>
> Hans
>
> PS! I have contacted the hoster - I'll let you know if they have
> some explanation/solution to the issue.

I have investigated this, and there is indeed a problem on our part.
The problem was introduced when we upgraded a web server, and is
caused by incompatibilities with some of the file servers. This does
not affect all of our users.

If you want, I can move your account to a different file server. I was
about to do this anyway, but I discovered that you reference absolute
paths in your scripts. I advise you to use relative paths or at least
build the paths from $_ENV['HOME'] or similar.

We will try to solve the problem as soon as possible.

--
Frode Nordahl

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