Writing Files (Unix, Apache, PHP 4.0.X) [Newbie Alert]

I'm trying to open a file for writing using $hOutFile = fopen("filename.tmp","w"); but I'm getting "Permission denied". The directory has write permission for all user levels. Since this is the root www directory, I also tried $hOutFile = fopen("subdir/filename.tmp","w"); but this also gave the "Permission denied". Can anyone suggest any reasons why this might happen? Do some hosts not allow programs to write files like this? Database updates only? I see a note at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php saying "check your Apache permissions..." - forgive me for being an idiot, but how do I do that? {:v) -- -------------------------------------------- _ _ o o Jason Teagle < jason@teagster.co.uk v --------------------------------------------