Re: phpinfo returns a permission error

Dave M G wrote:

and this: $ ls -l /home/dave/web_sites/phpinfo.php

It says: -rw------- 1 dave dave 20 2006-02-13 22:45 /home/dave/web_sites/phpinfo.php

Well, I'd sure suspect this. PHP/Apache are probably running as "nobody", "daemon", "www", or somesuch, and the permissions on the file above only allow the user "dave" to read (and write to) this file. Try: $ chmod 644 /home/dave/web_sites/phpinfo.php

      and see if you can read the file.

In addition, do some checking on your umask, or try and remember how you created this file. A umask of 22 should produce "-rw-r--r--": [624] Tue 14.Feb.2006 16:15:58 [kadmin@archangel][~/daleco/software/Windows] umask 22 [625] Tue 14.Feb.2006 16:17:00 [kadmin@archangel][~/daleco/software/Windows] touch foobar && ls -l foobar -rw-r--r-- 1 kadmin wheel 0 Feb 14 16:17 foobar but obviously, yours did not. "022" is the default umask for most shells. Seems likely that you were running your editor/IDE/whatnot setuid root, perhaps? HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- Don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon.