PHP Cache problems??

cc976a

Hope someone can help

Having a problem with a website I have that has been moved on to a new server. There is a very strange error message occuring now that did not exist before. It is:

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: Unable to access ./cache/cache_amazon_ etc.... and then goes on to show the line on the PHP file generating the error.

This line is:

if ($fp = fopen($filename, 'xb')) {

I have checked the permissions and the CHMOD on both old and new server folders are 755.

Is this a PHP setting on the server??

Thanks!

sneakyimp

If you are trying to [man]fopen[/man] a file for writing (which is what the xb means) then the user corresponding to your webserver is going to need WRITE access on the folder or file in question. 755 means the owner can read/write/execute but everyone else can only read/execute.

You can find out who the webserver user is thusly:

passthru('whoami');

cc976a

Thanks for the reply but what I am confused about is the folder on the server I removed the site from had a CHMOD of 755

The new server folder also has a CHMOD of 755.

If the permissions where the problem why would the site have worked on the old server?

Thanks

sneakyimp

Perhaps the folder was CHOWNed to the web server? It's not just the 755 but the owner.group that matter here.