Posted by Hans Fredrik Nordhaug on 07/31/07 16:36

On 2007-07-31, frode.nordahl@gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

Thx for the info - I'm glad it wasn't me (or a bug in PHP).

> 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.

Feel free to move my account - just send me an e-mail when it's done.
(If the issue is fixed this week without moving, I can wait.)

Hans

PS! I would of course prefer to use $_ENV['HOME'], but $_ENV doesn't
contain HOME because the current user is "nobody" ... The absolute
paths is set in one single file so updating is no problem.

[Back to original message]