aarrrgg!!! Help me figure out permissions issue, please.

[jlpeifer]

😕 Ok, so I'm baffled. I'm trying to install a shopping cart solution named xcart. The installation is getting stalled at a point where it attempts to write out to a file named "config.php". I get an error that indicates that the file cannot be written to. Permissions on the "config.php" file are 666. Now I'm somewhat new to Unix and PHP... so please pardon what may be a really simple question... but the "config.php" file is being called from another file named "install.php". I suspect that this problem is ALL about who/what owns the "config.php" file. On my server Apache is assigned to user "nobody" and group "nobody". What about PHP? Does it have a user/group designation of its own? If so, how can I determine what it is? HELP?!?!? 😕

[ir4z0r]

since PHP is a module to Apache, it uses the same user
so chmod 777 all your files AND the directories they are placed in, the user is unimportant then

[jlpeifer]

Perfectly clear answer. Thanks you. That's exactly what I needed to know. 😃