Why can't copy files on unix with php?

[Anon]

I have written the following php script running on Solaris 2.8 system:

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$file_from="/tmp/text.txt";
$file_to="/webroot/mytext.txt";
copy ($file_from,$file_to);

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But it occured an error when it run,the error reported:"Can't create the file, pemission deny....". It means that the php script has not right to create the file mytext.txt under the directory "/webroot/".

I don't know how to set the php script's right so that it can work well!

pls. help me!!

Thanks in advanced!!

[frymaster]

in theory the /tmp dir should be writable, but php scripts run as the user that owns apache... probably (hopefully) a very limited account. try this from the unix command line

su root
cd /
chmod o+w ./tmp

[Anon]

No, actually his problem is that webroot isn't writable by the web server. This requires the webroot directory to be set so the web server can write to it. So either make the directory world writable (ick) or make the web server part of a group and let the group have write permissions.