Re: Weird permission issue

On 5/7/19 12:33 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > I have a PHP app and it runs from /var/www/html/foo. It writes to a > log file in there log.txt. To do some testing I created a dir > /var/www/html/foo.new and installed the code there. To switch back and > forth I do this: > > mv /var/www/html/foo /var/www/html/foo.old > mv /var/www/html/foo.new /var/www/html/foo > > When I do that I get an error writing to the log file: > > Error #2: fopen(/var/www/html/foo/log.txt): failed to open stream: > Permission denied > > But if I switch back: > > mv /var/www/html/foo /var/www/html/foo.new > mv /var/www/html/foo.old /var/www/html/foo > > I do not get the error. The code is identical in foo and foo.new and > the perms and owner on log.txt is identical in too and foo.new. I have > tried restating apache and rebooting the machine, but no joy. > > What could be causing the permission error? Who owns the foo.new and the foo.old directories? That is most likely where the problem is. -- Willie Matthews matthews.willie80@gmail.com (702) 659-9966