fopen fails when file exists

journy101

using fopen I always get FALSE when I know the file exists, I have looked over my code but cannot find a problem, maybe a configuration setting?

$fd=@fopen($_GET['auth_file'],"r");
if ($fd==FALSE) {
echo "Error: fopen() failed opening". $_GET['auth_file'];
} else { ...

I always get failed opening. In the address bar I have

script.php?auth_file=pwd.txt

I know pwd.txt is inside the same folder the script.php is in and the web server is configured to show text\plain for any txt files

Can you guide me to what might be the problem, my code, php.ini or a web server config? My file system is FAT32 and does not have any file permisions.

bubblenut

What are the permissions on the file?

journy101

My web server does not alow me to set file permisions, it alows me to set user realms and controll things like allow ip, block ip, and to set user acounts then I associate a folder with the realm.

I can type the uri directly

http://localhost/private/pwd.txt and the file will display. Not sure if this means visitors have read permisions or not.

journy101

Ok problem has been solved,somehow the pwd.txt file got moved out of my private folder.

Have no idea how this hapened or why I was still able to view the file using a direct url request, since http://localhost/private/pwd.txt always displayed the file while the script.php was unable to load it.

The help was greatly apreaceated.