Writing to file on webserver from php

Anon

I want to set up simple page counter. The script iz fairly simple. It opens a file, increases number of visits, etc...
Problem is when I update it on web server. I'm getting an error:
fopen("oglasi.txt","w+") - Permission denied in /home/sites/users/kcmk/web/counter.php on line 112
So, it generaly means that I can't write to dir from PHP script, or any other script.

need help
Regards, coyote

Anon

Yes, it's a permissions problem. If you can't arrange
a better solution, you can at least create a subdirectory
with 666 permission where you can store the file.
That's probably better than giving broader rights
to your DOCUMENT_ROOT (provided you don't store
anything more important than your counter files in
the new directory.)

By the way, you don't want "w+" access on your
file; this overwrites the existing file exactly as "w"
would. The access you want is "r+", which gives
read+write access but preserves the existing
contents. Yes, it means creating the file the
first time will be a special case.

Anon

You must set the right permissions on oglasi.txt. This basicly means setting the perm-bits to '666' to make it writable to everyone, or chown'ing the file to the same user that runs the http-daemon. In the latter case, 'chmod 600' is sufficient.

Hope this helps.