Re: First time PHP user question

Rick Dwyer wrote: > Hello List. > I have been playing around with PHP, running a few tutorials and I came > across an error message I could not resolve. > > The tutorial is Generating One Time URL's by Oreilly: > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/php/2002/12/05/one_time_URLs.html > > Basically the PHP code is supposed to read from a text file and write to > a text file and serve a text file all located in the "tmp" directory of > the server. > > However, I receive the error that the referenced files in the PHP code > could not be found: > "Warning: readfile(/tmp/secret_file.txt) [function.readfile]: failed to > open stream: No such file or directory > in/home/mysite/myfolder/get_file.php on line 67" > > Line 66 and 67 look like this: > > $secretfile = "/tmp/secret_file.txt"; > readfile($secretfile); > > > However, in the tmp folder, I have created a simple text file called > "secret_file.txt" so I know it exists and it has the permissions set to > 644, so it should be readable. > > Can someone point out to me what I am doing wrong? Thanks, > try permissions of 777 and see if the error disappears; odds are v high that the httpd user php is running under doesn't have group or owner permissions for /tmp & that secret file. regards