Permission Denied?

Matt_T

I'm getting this error:

Warning: fopen(counter.txt): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home2/racingri/public_html/counter.php on line 9

Not sure why, it's in the same folder, but yet it denies it?

Any help?

Thanks

SCRIPT:

<?php
//this is our text file if you create a different named file change the script below to reflect this
$counter_file = ("counter.txt");
//now we open the file
$visits = file($counter_file);
//this increments the counter value by 1
$visits[0]++;
//now we will open the counter file for writing "w"
$fp = fopen($counter_file , "w");
//put the new count value into the counter file
fputs($fp , "$visits[0]");
//close the file
fclose($fp);
//display the count
echo "There have been $visits[0] visitors so far";
?>

dinger

Are the UNIX permissions set correctly on the file "counter.txt"?

Try setting the permissions on this file to "777" and running the script.

If you have shell access you can do that by typing "chmod counter.txt 777".

If you only have FTP access to the server there should be an option in your FTP client that allows you to set permissions on remote files. Usually if you right click on the file name it'll give you that option. Make sure that you have read,write and execute permission on 'counter.txt'.

If the file does not exist, simply upload an empty file named counter.txt to the server and make sure it has the necessary permissions.

That should solve your problem.

Chris

loanskey

yes doing it 777 from the FTP client solve all the problems.

Matt_T

That worked! 🙂 THANKS! 🙂

Another problem....

I got the counter working on it's own page, but when I try to put it into a page where theres already PHP it won't show up. It's not giving me any errors, just not showing up.

The code is:

/$counter_file = ("counter.txt");
//now we open the file
$visits = file($counter_file);
//this increments the counter value by 1
$visits[0]++;
//now we will open the counter file for writing "w"
$fp = fopen($counter_file , "w");
//put the new count value into the counter file
fputs($fp , "$visits[0]");
//close the file
fclose($fp);
//display the count
echo "There have been $visits[0] visitors so far";

I don't include the PHP Tags around it as when I do, it gives me an error. It works on it's own page (With the PHP tags) but not with other PHP stuff?

Any help?

Thanks! 🙂