require_once: permission denied

[rcaubin]

Hello all, this is my first post and I couldn't find an answer using the search function on the board so here goes...

I was running a script for about 1 month and everything was running fine.

I leave for a 2 day trip, come back and getting the following error:

Warning: main(/home/rcaubin/carp/carp.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/rcaubin/public_html/rssphp.php on line 15

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '/home/rcaubin/carp/carp.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/rcaubin/public_html/rssphp.php on line 15

Line 15 of the code is:

require_once "/home/rcaubin/carp/carp.php";

[bubblenut]

Is /home/rcaubin/carp/carp.php still there? What are the permissions on it?

[rcaubin]

The folder/file still exist

Thanks for asking me what the permissions were you pointed me in the right direction.

I consulted my ftp program and the documents for the script and the permissions had gotten reset.

I've reset the permissions as they should be but I need to know if there's a way to prevent this from happening again?

Would there be a way to have the script check to see if the permissions on the files and folders are correct before executing, if they are not set them before continuing?

Thanks a bunch!

[bubblenut]

I think the first think to find out how and why the permissions on the file got changed in the first place. Prevention is the best cure 😉
You can use [man]is_readable()[/man] and then [man]chmod()[/man] but I suspect that the script won't have permissions to do that if it's not even able to read it.