php file chmod question

Anon

I wrote a php script to do a simple task for me. It get a file name from user input and create the new file then insert url and email in the newly created file.

I found however that the files created using the script have an attribute of 600. I can not chmod even I logged via FTP.

Any idea? Thank u

the script goes here:

<head>
<title>add</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
if (($topic!="") and ($mail!="")) {
$domain = fopen($topic, "w");
fwrite($domain, "http:// ".$url."\n");
fwrite($domain, "mail: ".$mail."\n");
fclose($domain);
echo "Thank you<p><br><br><br><br><br>";
} else {
?>
<form action=<? echo($GLOBALS["PHP_SELF"]); ?> method=post>
<table border=0>
<tr><td>ID</td><td><input type=text size=20 name=topic>@.vvat.com</td></tr>
<tr><td>redirect</td><td><input type=text size=20 name=url></tr>
<tr><td>Email</td><td><input type=text size=20 name=mail></tr>

<tr><td colspan=2><div align=right><input type=submit value="submit"></td></tr>
</table>
</form>
<?
}
?>
</body>

Anon

what chmod command line are you entering? can you send a 'ls -l' listing of the file?

There are two questions here a) who is the owner and what is the group for the file and b) what rights are set?

As an example, if the group is set to the webserver (nobody?) and you are the owner, then you could enter 'chmod 750 filename'.

Anon

Steve,

Thank u for the reply.

I meant to chmod the it to 644 when I create the file using the php script. how can I specify that when I create the file?

The funny thing is that I can chmod any file in ftp. But files created by my script refused to change from 600 to anything?

Any idea?

Thank you.

Anon

the rwx status of any file is determined by parameters set as part of the user login or process initialization. There is a default mask set as part of the initialization.

Two possible solutions ; 1) write the file, and then reset the rwx status using php. Add a php chmod line. 2) start to use a database for this purpose?