Permission problems with unlink()

[Benjamin]

Hello, I'm running PHP 5.2.0 as a Apache 2.2 server module. When, I try
to unlink I get this: "Warning: unlink(file.txt ) [function.unlink]:
Permission denied..." What and how do I change this so it works?
Thanks

[terence.parker@gmail.com]

Re: Permission problems with unlink()

This could be a permission issue. To unlink a file your webserver must
have the permissions to remove it. Most likely your apache is running
as user 'apache', so the file you are removing must either be owned by
user/group apache, or have permissions to be removed by any user (666 /
777).

Terence



Benjamin wrote:

Hello, I'm running PHP 5.2.0 as a Apache 2.2 server module. When, I try
to unlink I get this: "Warning: unlink(file.txt ) [function.unlink]:
Permission denied..." What and how do I change this so it works?
Thanks

[Benjamin]

Re: Permission problems with unlink()

I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I'm running windows.

terence.parker@ gmail.com wrote:

This could be a permission issue. To unlink a file your webserver must
have the permissions to remove it. Most likely your apache is running
as user 'apache', so the file you are removing must either be owned by
user/group apache, or have permissions to be removed by any user (666 /
777).
>
Terence
>
>
>
Benjamin wrote:

Hello, I'm running PHP 5.2.0 as a Apache 2.2 server module. When, I try
to unlink I get this: "Warning: unlink(file.txt ) [function.unlink]:
Permission denied..." What and how do I change this so it works?
Thanks

[Alvaro G. Vicario]

Re: Permission problems with unlink()

*** Benjamin escribió/wrote (19 Aug 2006 11:04:15 -0700):

I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I'm running windows.

Then right click on the icon in Windows explorer, select "Properties ", find
the "Security" tab and set permissions accordingly.

>This could be a permission issue. To unlink a file your webserver must
>have the permissions to remove it. Most likely your apache is running
>as user 'apache', so the file you are removing must either be owned by
>user/group apache, or have permissions to be removed by any user (666 /
>777).

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[Benjamin]

Re: Permission problems with unlink()

I figured it out. It was stupid really. I had opened the file with
fopen() without running fclose() before trying to unlink() it. Thanks
for your help though.
Alvaro G. Vicario wrote:

*** Benjamin escribió/wrote (19 Aug 2006 11:04:15 -0700):

I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I'm running windows.

>
Then right click on the icon in Windows explorer, select "Properties ", find
the "Security" tab and set permissions accordingly.
>
>

This could be a permission issue. To unlink a file your webserver must
have the permissions to remove it. Most likely your apache is running
as user 'apache', so the file you are removing must either be owned by
user/group apache, or have permissions to be removed by any user (666 /
777).

>
>
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[Carl Vondrick]

Re: Permission problems with unlink()

Benjamin wrote:

Hello, I'm running PHP 5.2.0 as a Apache 2.2 server module. When, I try
to unlink I get this: "Warning: unlink(file.txt ) [function.unlink]:
Permission denied..." What and how do I change this so it works?
Thanks

Does this happen on PHP 5.1? It may be a PHP5.2 bug, in which case you
should report it.

We need to see some code first, but my guess is that you do not have
permission to delete that file. What is the file CHMOD'd to? Can you
delete it via the command line?

Also, if you unlink something at script shut down (__destruct() for
example), you will run into problems with permissions, because the
engine is in the processing of shutting down and many streams are killed
-- such as MySQL, and likely the filesystem.

Carl


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[Benjamin]

Re: Permission problems with unlink()

It was totally my fault.
I had created the file with fopen and failed to call fclose before
trying to delete it. I suppose that fopen had use of the file so I
couldn't alter it.
Carl Vondrick wrote:

Benjamin wrote:

Hello, I'm running PHP 5.2.0 as a Apache 2.2 server module. When, I try
to unlink I get this: "Warning: unlink(file.txt ) [function.unlink]:
Permission denied..." What and how do I change this so it works?
Thanks

>
Does this happen on PHP 5.1? It may be a PHP5.2 bug, in which case you
should report it.
>
We need to see some code first, but my guess is that you do not have
permission to delete that file. What is the file CHMOD'd to? Can you
delete it via the command line?
>
Also, if you unlink something at script shut down (__destruct() for
example), you will run into problems with permissions, because the
engine is in the processing of shutting down and many streams are killed
-- such as MySQL, and likely the filesystem.
>
Carl
>
>
--
Carl Vondrick
www.YoungCoders.com -- Forum for the younger, next generation programmers.