[RESOLVED] fopen()

stangl

We have recently transferred my website/code to a new IIS server...

I’m trying to use fopen() to open a file for writing. I’m using the following:

$filename = "C:/Inetpub/WWWroot/website.org/Reports/file.txt”;
$fp = fopen($filename, "w");

This always returns null. I use the same filepath for my include statements:

include "C:/Inetpub/WWWroot/website.org/Libs/file.ini";

And this works fine. Any ideas why fopen() is not working above?

Thanks.

_newbie

have you tried changing it to the url location of the file?
i.e. //server/website.org/Reports/file.txt

It's the first thing I would try anyways. I personaly would also normalise folder names to be all lower case aswell, but that's just me.

stangl

Do you mean "//#.#.#.#/website.org/Reports/file.txt" ?

where #'s are the server's IP?

If so, yes, just tried that and it didn't work.

I also tried "https://website.org/Reports/file.txt" to no avail...

jaql

stangl;10931637 wrote:
Do you mean "//#.#.#.#/website.org/Reports/file.txt" ?

where #'s are the server's IP?

If so, yes, just tried that and it didn't work.

I also tried "https://website.org/Reports/file.txt" to no avail...

Some things from the fopen() manual:

 On the Windows platform, be careful to escape any backslashes 
used in the path to the file, or use forward slashes.
<?php
$handle = fopen("c:\\data\\info.txt", "r");
?>

When using SSL, Microsoft IIS will violate the protocol by closing the connection without sending a close_notify indicator. PHP will report this as "SSL: Fatal Protocol Error" when you reach the end of the data. To work around this, the value of error_reporting should be lowered to a level that does not include warnings. PHP 4.3.7 and higher can detect buggy IIS server software when you open the stream using the https:// wrapper and will suppress the warning. When using fsockopen() to create an ssl:// socket, the developer is responsible for detecting and suppressing this warning.

stangl

Now I’m getting a permission denied error message from fopen:

PHP Warning: fopen(c:\inetpub\wwwroot\website.org\reports\file.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in C:\Inetpub\WWWroot\website.org\public\Admin\script.php on line 79

Before I got “invalid argument to fopen” or “no such file or directory”. I’m logged into the site as the root user which has all privileges set to Y in the user table, including file_priv...

Any ideas why I’m getting a permission denied error as the root user?

Thanks.

jaql

stangl;10931736 wrote:
Now I’m getting a permission denied error message from fopen:

PHP Warning: fopen(c:\inetpub\wwwroot\website.org\reports\file.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in C:\Inetpub\WWWroot\website.org\public\Admin\script.php on line 79

Before I got “invalid argument to fopen” or “no such file or directory”. I’m logged into the site as the root user which has all privileges set to Y in the user table, including file_priv...

Any ideas why I’m getting a permission denied error as the root user?

Thanks.

Looks like you don't have permission to open that file which may be because: the server doesn't have permission to open it or it does not have permission to read the dir the file is in. Check the perms of the file and/or dir it is in.

stangl

Changed the permissions in that dir (duh). It's working fine now.

Thanks!