Re: Weird permission issue

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 3:34 AM Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> 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 > > Apologize if off topic, but I would recommend changing config file rather than doing mv on folders. > 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? > -- Guang <http://javadevnotes.com/java-enum-string>