creating a textfile

Il-Belti

I am trying to send the contents of a form to a text file using the fopen, fwrite and fclose funcations. This all works fine but on a particular pc using IIS i am getting permission denied to create the file. Any ideas why this happens? I am still testing my site locally on the localhost.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

planetphp

possibly a windows folder permissions issue or the paths are not correct for a windows machine.

Ashley_Sheridan

What is the code you're using to create the text file? Without seeing that, we can't really be of much help.

bradgrafelman

Il-Belti;10996362 wrote:
I am trying to send the contents of a form to a text file using the fopen, fwrite and fclose funcations.

You could save yourself a lot of typing by using [man]file_put_contents/man instead.

Il-Belti;10996362 wrote:
This all works fine but on a particular pc using IIS i am getting permission denied to create the file. Any ideas why this happens?

Yeah, because the IIS worker account doesn't have permission to create the file. In other words, the error message is fairly self-explanatory.

You'll either need to a) find out what account the IIS worker process is using and give that account 'Write' permissions to the directory, or b) simply give 'Everyone' the permissions instead (with the former obviously being the more security-conscious approach).

Il-Belti

thanks all for your replies, and the tip about using file_put_contents. I solved the problem by installing xampp and disabling IIS. However, just for curiosity any idea where to look for to give the permissions, if I ever use IIS again?

Thank you.

bradgrafelman

Il-Belti;10996393 wrote:
I solved the problem by installing xampp and disabling IIS.

Just so you know, file permissions don't go away just because you use a different application, thus they still apply. It would seem, however, that you're executing the Apache process under an account that has the required permissions to write to the desired folder.

Il-Belti;10996393 wrote:
However, just for curiosity any idea where to look for to give the permissions, if I ever use IIS again?

I don't have access to an IIS server at the moment (I've stayed far, far away from using any form of Windows in a production server for some time now :p), so I can't remember the exact location. Somewhere in the IIS manager app, though, is a way to configure your "Application Pools" I think is what it's called. Assuming your website in IIS is configured to use the default app pool, you'll want to view the properties of that pool. Somewhere in those properties is a configuration setting that tells IIS what user account to use when starting up that application pool. This is the account that will need the write permissions.

Note that as a cheap workaround to actually finding this setting, you could probably determine what account PHP is being executed under by viewing a script like:

system('whoami');

Il-Belti

thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction, i will give it a try.