Creating static webpages on the fly

[dougmcc1]

I have a confirmation page on my website that generates a .html file. For example, maybe it's called confirmation.php. Also for example, maybe the page it is trying to generate is called 123456-0987.html. And the folder it is trying to put 123456-0987.html in is called 'receipts'.

so the final location is /home/account_name/public_html/admin/receipts/123456-0987.html

confirmation.html is unable to write to this location. The permissions of the 'receipts' folder are set to 755 and I dont want to change them to 777. How can I get the confirmation.html page to be able to write to the 'receipts' folder without changing the permissions?

[bpat1434]

You would have to be sure that the user Apache (or the php instance) is running as is the owner of the said folder.

There's nothing wrong with making the folder 777 if it's not reachable from the web (e.g. you're putting it outside the webroot). For example...

CakePHP is set up in a way that you can have your Apache virtual host set up so that "/var/www/httpdocs" is your document root for your website. But CakePHP requires that you use /var/www/httpdocs/app/webroot as your webroot, so it has 2 .htaccess files which automatically push you forward to app/webroot if you're not there. So anything in app/plugins, app/vendors, app/models, app/controllers is not "seen" or visible by anyone browsing the web; however, your script(s) can use those files. So creating a folder in app with permissions of 777 would be relatively safe.

[rincewind456]

If you don't have the permissions set correctly then the simple answer is that you can't, you could save them to a folder that is writable and then set up a cron job for the user with the requisite permissions to move them. But it seems a bit long winded.