permission denied WHY?

[JaazzMan]

Hi! I wrote this script and executed on my server, with php 4.1.2
<?php

$fp = fopen('test.txt ', 'w');
fwrite($fp, "Bla bla");
fclose($fp);

?>

it returns this message:
Warning: fopen("test.txt ", "w") - Permission denied in file.php4 on line 3

I've tried to change file permissions, change to fopen('test.txt ', 'w+b')
and other modes. But it doesn´t work.

Please help!!

I've seen I can't unlink or rename some files.

[Randell D.]

Re: permission denied WHY?


"JaazzMan" <dontemailme@ne ver.com> wrote in message
news:Xns93FBA14 2794B4dontemail menevercom@194. 179.3.156...[color=blue]
> Hi! I wrote this script and executed on my server, with php 4.1.2
> <?php
>
> $fp = fopen('test.txt ', 'w');
> fwrite($fp, "Bla bla");
> fclose($fp);
>
> ?>
>
> it returns this message:
> Warning: fopen("test.txt ", "w") - Permission denied in file.php4 on line 3
>
> I've tried to change file permissions, change to fopen('test.txt ', 'w+b')
> and other modes. But it doesn´t work.
>
> Please help!!
>
> I've seen I can't unlink or rename some files.[/color]

If you cannot unlike/rename files it sounds like a limitation on the
server - however, to make absolutely sure, I would use the full directory
path preceeded before the filename in the fopen command, for example

$fp=fopen("/path/to/your/directory/test.txt", "w+b");

If that does not solve it... then I'm curious if you are using a third party
server with restrictive access. Read more on open_basedir
(http://www.php.net/open_basedir)


Lastly... Its not a cause, but if you are createing a text file, you
shouldn't be createing a binary file (thus open the file with "w+" and not
"w+b")

hope that helps