stat failed

D3javu

Hi , i'm a newbie , i'm getting this error =>

Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for folder.exe in C:\Program Files\folder1\folder2\a.php on line 16

OS : WinXp Pro
Server : Apache2
PHP : 5.0.2

Please help me.

mrhappiness

file C:\Program Files\folder1\folder2\folder.exe exists?

php/apache user has read permission?

bodzan

I think that filesize only works when file that you want to check is available through server (Apache) file system...

What I mean is: you can't check anything that is not in your htdocs of the Apache server unless it is a file that was uploaded and resides in TMP folder...

I could be wrong...

D3javu

Well , in linux i could change the permission with chmod. But how in windows xp? Is it really i need to store them in temp? Why is it like that? Then if uploaded to a server(webhosting) , they will store those files in /temp too?

mrhappiness

@
you're wrong
filesize works if the file is accessible through the filesystem

@
try right clicking the folder, you should see some permission tab (dunno how it's called, only have german version here)

D3javu

Sorry , but right click the folder , there is nothing about permission. The files in the folder i change them to archieve ... how now? :/ , i'm quite blur!

bodzan

to mrhappiness:

I believe that Apache filesystem is somewhat different than the one of the Operating System, meaning you can't access all the files that reside on the machine no matter the permissions of the file because I figure that would be a major security vulnerability.

Again, I'm not sure of this but it's just my common sense...

bodzan

I found in manual that PHP supports following wrapers when comunicating with filesystem:

All versions of PHP. Explicitly using file:// since PHP 4.3.0

/path/to/file.ext

relative/path/to/file.ext

fileInCwd.ext

C:/path/to/winfile.ext

C:\path\to\winfile.ext

\smbserver\share\path\to\winfile.ext

file:///path/to/file.ext

file:// is the default wrapper used with PHP and represents the local filesystem. When a relative path is specified (a path which does not begin with /, \, \, or a windows drive letter) the path provided will be applied against the current working directory. In many cases this is the directory in which the script resides unless it has been changed. Using the CLI sapi, this defaults to the directory from which the script was called.

So it seems that my logic was bad in this case like I suggested it might be...

Mrhappiness was right: tha problem you are facing seems to be related to the permissions on the WinXP machine...

However how to fix it - I simply don't know...

D3javu

I really need to know how to change the file permission on windows xp pro sp1. My works are in pending because of this problem. Please , anyone who knows , please guide me through it , i beg you. Thank you for your help!

mrhappiness

You have apache installed as service?
Than most likely you will be member of admin group and therefor should be able to access all and averything

please show us your code (line with filesize and 5 lines above and below), the complete error message and insert

echo realpath($file);

before

filesize($file);

D3javu

<?php
if ($filedir = opendir('download'))

{

while (( $file = readdir($filedir) ) !== false )

  {
   if ( $file !== "." && $file != ".." ) 

     {


       echo "<a href = \"/download/$file\"><font color=\"#ff0000\">$file </a><br>";
       echo "<br>".realpath($file);
       echo "<br>".filesize($file);

}
}
closedir($filedir);
}

Error i get :

Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for a.exe in C:\qw\qw\a.php on line 35

mrhappiness

You're reading folder download but filesize() does not know this and looks for the file $file in the current directory

filesize('download/'.$file); should do the trick

btw: realpath($file) should have returned the fully qualified path which php assumes $file is installed in.
i bet there is no "download" in it, is it?

D3javu

Thank you MrHappiness! and also other buddies. It works! Cool .. thanks you.