On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:06:19PM -0700, Don Russell wrote: > I'm writing a small php web application at home and developing in my > public_html directory. > > That works fine, except I'm trying to create a file from the php page. I > thought I'd be able to create a file in the same directory with the php > script, but the fopen(...,'wb') fails with a permission error. > > I don't mind moving my development work into /var/www/html, but then my > problem is when I try to update the script from Dreamweaver on my other > machine, I don't know how to set up ftp so I get write access to /var/www > > So... I need a solution for 1 or both of these: > > 1 - How to I grant wite access to my public_html so the php web page > can write to it? You should probably give the fopen fuction a fully qualified path name, say "/home/donr/public_html/foo.txt". Apache's home directory is /var/www (as set in /etc/passwd). Then, Apache runs as a non root user, apache. So you need to set permissions for apache to write in that directory. so: chmod o+w ~/public_html That's the least secure way to do it: it lets any user on your computer write to that directory. Somewhat more secure is to create a group having only apache and you in it, and give it the group ownership for public_html. For even greater security, create a directory especially for files, say "~/public_html/files", and treat it as above. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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