Help plz... permissions issue

[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 (a file named install.php) attempts to write out to a file named "config.php". I get an error that indicates that config.php cannot be written to. Permissions on "config.php" are 666, so this shouldn't be a problem. 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 the ownership of the "config.php" file. On my server Apache's owner is "nobody". Is PHP a process too? Does it have an owner designation of its own? If so, how can I determine what it is? HELP?!?!?

[sijis]

it might be the the 'config.php' file doesn't have write access to it.
I forget what is the 'best' secure permission, but if you do:
chmod 777 config.php (in the console)
you should be ready to go.
basically what you are doing is giving everyone read/write/execute access to that file.

if you have console access, do:
man chmod (gives info about: file permissions)
man chown (gives info about: ownership of file)

hth.

[jlpeifer]

Thanks!