Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/27/07 12:44

IamtheEvster wrote:
> On Sep 26, 6:43 pm, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
>> IamtheEvster wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>> I'm using fopen for the first time and I know I'm running into a
>>> permissions problem, but I can't seem to resolve it and any help would
>>> be greatly appreciated.
>>> I'm running PHP5 and Apache on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.
>>> I've verified (by looking in httpd.conf) that Apache is running as
>>> user "apache" and group "apache". So, that's the user/group that PHP
>>> should be running under, right?
>>> The following line of code in my PHP file which, as I understand,
>>> should open a pointer to a file, and create the file if it doesn't
>>> exist (which it doesn't):
>>> $writeFile = fopen($directory . $filename, "w");
>>> This generates the following error:
>>> Warning: fopen(/home/chroot/exports/webleads_200709261803.csv)
>>> [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /path/to/
>>> filename.php on line 87
>>> I've tried changing ownership of the /home/chroot/exports/ directory
>>> to have the group be "apache" and then done a chmod 775 on the
>>> directory. Still get the error.
>>> In fact, if I chmod 777 on the directory, thus giving every user
>>> permission to write to the dir, I still get the error. I totally
>>> don't understand that...
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm really at my wits end at
>>> this point.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Evan
>> well it seems weird.
>>
>> Try (as root) going
>> # su apache
>> $ touch "pathtofilename"
>> and see if that works.
>>
>> If it does, I suspect PHP itself has some permssion stuff getting in the
>> way. There I can't help..
>
> Well, If I try to su apache, then I get "The account is currently not
> available."
>
> I believe, though, that that's because it's set to be an account that
> can't log in. In /etc/passwd, the home directory for the apache
> account is /sbin/nologin. If I change that to an actual directory
> (one that apache does not have permission to, for example) then I
> get:
>
> # su apache
> su: /home/otheruser: Permission denied
>
> Even if I try to assign permissions to all or to the apache user, I
> get the permission denied error, so not sure what's going on there.
>
>
> Where in PHP might there be some other permission-related items? Are
> there any settings in php.ini I should be looking at?
>
> Thanks again for the help.
>
> Evan
>

Nope, nothing which would cause this problem. open_basedir will limit
directories you can access, but that wouldn't give you this problem.

I'd suggest you try a Linux admin group - figure out what your
permission problems are.

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