File permissions when hosted by SourceForge

crunchyfroggie

Hi everyone,

I'm new here, and relatively new to PHP. I've prepared the PHP for my website (happily it all works on my local Apache server) but I'm having file permission issues on SourceForge - where the site is actually hosted. The error says "failed to open stream: Read-only file system".

Why post a SF issue here? Well, I can't find much help on this via Google or at the SF website itself (which offers only vague instructions) and I'll have to wait 5 business days for the staff to respond to my support request (which is lodged).

The web page below describes the use of the /tmp/persistent directories to store any files that need to "be written by the project web servers" (I'm guessing that includes flat text files appended to by a PHP program).

http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=4297&group_id=1#permissions

I'm hoping someone with SourceForge experience will see this and have some helpful advice to offer. 🙂

I've tried placing the /tmp/persistent folder in various locations (inside htdocs, outside htdocs etc) and changed the folder and file permissions to include read and write (using the SSH client GUI on my system). Nothing seems to be working.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
-crunchyfroggie

crunchyfroggie

With some help from elsewhere, I'm pretty close to enabling file editing/writing with PHP on a SourceForge-hosted website.

For anyone with an interest in this topic, here is a more detailed explanation...

(Using an SSH2-capable program such as gFTP under Linux) navigate back to the root directory, /. and find tmp/persistent/
The content is hidden but you will be able to make a directory (mkdir)

Opening the persistent folder in gFTP disconnected me from the server, so I entered the tmp folder and right-clicked > make directory.
Instead of typing just a directory name, I typed "persistent/my_directory_name" (where my_directory_name was the name of the folder I wanted to create). This seemed to work in gFTP.

Getting the files in PHP will be harder for me, since I've never used the FTP functionality in PHP.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.ftp.php

The above link from the PHP.net manual discusses some basics of FTP. I'm wondering whether there's any particular or preferred method for appending to a file via FTP. If you've had experience with this, I'd love to hear any hints or advice.

Thanks! I hope this forum thread is helpful to someone else. 🙂