Re: Please assist - been on this for hours - Permissions onserver

On Friday 11 July 2003 15:20, Steve Jackson wrote: > > Writing and moving require the same permissions. Also, there is a big > > difference between root and webroot. Which one are you talking about? > > Web root. > Sorry not the root directory of the server but the webroot. 1 directory > back in fact is all I need so the structure would be: > > Web> Cms> generator.php > Web> generated.php > > So I can protect the CMS directory which currently needs to be chmod 777 > in order to write the page (at least that was the only way I could get > the write function to work) and then just have the written files drop > back into the web root so that if someone typed: > > http://www.mysite.com/generated.php > > They would get the page. > > Not (as I can currently do) > http://www.mysite.com/cms/generated.php You can use php's ftp functions to write the file into your webroot directory. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* One enemy soldier is never enough, but two is entirely too many -- Murphy's Military Laws n68 */