[Resolved] fopen() file outside of docroot required Help

[ppowell]

I am having to use fopen() to open up a file that is found outside the document root. Of course, Apache can't normally access files outside of the docroot, but due to security requirements the CSV file must reside outside the docroot, however, for functionality requirements, the PHP scripts via Apache must be open to open this file.

How can I do this?

Thanx
Phil

[devinemke]

just to clarify: Apache can't normally serve files outside of the docroot, but this has nothing to do with which files PHP can access. PHP's filesystem functions can access any files that are available to the server's filesytem (pending permissions).

$handle = fopen('/path/to/file.csv', 'r'); // which may be outside the doc root

[ppowell]

Thanx, however, none of PHP's filesystem commands have permissions to read this file outside the docroot, even though it has 0644 permissions and is in the same group as Apache, sharing the exact same permissions as other scripts within the docroot that Apache has no problem with.

Phil

[ppowell]

I gave up and decided to go the database route instead.

Thanx
Phil