Re: reading/writing files outside of web root

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 02:31, Richard Lynch wrote: > Phil Ewington - 43 Plc wrote: > > For some reason user_prefs will not open > > for read/write even when I tested it under apache.apache and chmod'd > > to 755, > > perhaps because /home is owned by root? > > Something went wrong with this test. > > You SHOULD have been able to read/write that file in PHP, assuming > 'apache' is the user PHP runs as. Use > http://php.net/phpinfo to > confirm that it really *IS* 'apache' user that's running apache/php. It *will* fail if apache has no access to $HOME! -- 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 ------------------------------------------ New Year Resolution: Ignore top posted posts