Forbidden access

saranoltsis

I'm completely new at this! I have Apache2 running and have configured it (following the instructions) for PHP5.
I tried to use the following code
<html>
<body>
<?
if (isset($POST["confirm"]))//posted?
{
//php must have write-access in this directory
$fp=fopen("data.txt","w");//overwrite existing text file
fwrite($fp,var_export($POST,TRUE));//write post-data
fclose($fp);
}
?>
<form action='<?=$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]?>' method="post">
name<input type="text" name="name"><br>
city<input type="text" name="city"><br>
telnr a<input type="text" name="telnr[0]"><br>
telnr b<input type="text" name="telnr[1]"><br>
<input type="submit" name="confirm">
</form>
</html>
but got the following error message

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /< on this server.

Can any one help please?

Sara

_RL_Ian

Are you on Windows or Linux?

Check your /var/log/httpd/error_log

Rodney_H_

Maybe this will help. This is a line from your code:

<form action='<?=$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]?>' method="post">

When I run this code I get this error message: "You don't have permission to access /php/ (...) on this server."

Try changing that line to this:

<form action='<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>' method="post">

Note:

<?= expression ?> This is a shortcut for "<? echo expression ?>"

Short tags are only available when they are enabled via the short_open_tag php.ini configuration file directive, or if php was configured with the --enable-short-tags option.

I hope that helps...

Rodney_H_

Rodney H. wrote:
Maybe this will help. This is a line from your code:
<form action='<?=$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]?>' method="post">
When I run this code I get this error message: "You don't have permission to access /php/
Notice: Undefined variable: PHP_SELF in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\php\1.php on line 37
on this server."
PHP.net wrote:
<?= expression ?> This is a shortcut for "<? echo expression ?>"
Short tags are only available when they are enabled via the short_open_tag php.ini configuration file directive, or if php was configured with the --enable-short-tags option.
Try changing that line to this:
<form action='<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>' method="post">
I hope that helps..

saranoltsis

No it's still giving me the Forbidden access error. Also the html page come up like this:

'method="post"> name
city
telnr a
telnr b

Rodney_H_

Probably don't have 'write' access in the directory. Try this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title> : Test Writing to a File : </title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<body>
<?php
//posted?
if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
	// gather posted values
	// 'trim()' removes whitespace
	$name = trim($_POST["name"]);
	$city = trim($_POST["city"]);
	$telnrA = trim($_POST["telnrA"]);
	$telnrB = trim($_POST["telnrB"]);

// format data to overwrite file with
// "\n" puts everything on its own line
$data = 'NAME: ' .$name. "\n"; 
$data .= 'CITY: ' .$city. "\n";
$data .= 'TELNR A: ' .$telnrA. "\n";
$data .= 'TELNR B: ' .$telnrB. "\n";

// define file
$file = 'data.txt';
// create file handle
$fhandle = fopen($file,'w');// 'w' mode
// make sure you have permission to write to file
if(is_writable($file)){
	$result = fwrite($fhandle, $data);
	if($result){
		echo 'The file <' . $file . '> has been overwritten.';
	}
} else {
echo 'You do not have permission to write to file <' . $file . '>.';
}
// close file handle
fclose($fhandle);
}
// else the form was not submitted, show form:
else {
?>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]?>" method="post">
<input type="text" name="name" size="30"> name 
<br>
<input type="text" name="city" size="30"> city 
<br>
<input type="text" name="telnrA" size="30"> telnr a 
<br>
<input type="text" name="telnrB" size="30"> telnr b 
<br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Save">
</form>
<?php
}
?>
</body>
</html>

EDIT: PS. The file must be saved with a '.php' extension, not an 'htm' or 'html' extension. (*That might have been your problem to begin with?)

saranoltsis

Thanks Rodney it worked!
Will now try with proper data
Sara