Re: Script execution

On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 16:59 -0400, George Larson wrote: > Hi everybody. > > The "problem" that I'm having is probably because I've got more of a > Windows > background -- and it isn't so much a problem as a point of curiosity. > > I've recently noticed that when I write a script that they seem to have > different permissions when executed at the command line. Two that I have > written recently run just fine when you execute 'php scriptname.php' but > they are unable, at least, to write the data if I browse to them on > localhost. > > Am I imagining things? If not, how would I properly make them able to run > through a browser? > > Thanks! > G This is to do with the fact that the web browser runs as a different user from you (usually apache, apache2 or wwwrun) What you could do is make the directory where you want to write files with the script part of a new group. Add the apache user to this group and you should then be able to get it to run. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk