PHP fopen() write permission denied

[Anon]

Let me start out by saying that I am relatively new to PHP and Solaris Unix, which happen to be the main part of my question.

I'm trying to use PHP to open an HTML file, change a few lines of code, write the changes to the file, and exit. This all works fine except for the opening/closing a file part. when I use fopen() I get a permission denied warning from my PHP script.

From what I understand about the server PHP runs as "nobody", and all of the files in the export/home/other/www directory are owned by user "www" who has read/write permissions to export/home/other/www and all of it's subdirectories. What is a viable way to allow PHP to have read/write access to certain files without opening up a huge security hole? Any help is appreciated

Wyatt McGuire
Penn State York
Senior Assistant Webmaster

[Anon]

give write permissions to all...

chmod o+w directoryname

-S

[Anon]

If I give write permissions to all won't that allow the public to modify the file? I need to make sure everything is still secure.

[kristoff]

If you are the owner of this file, then nobody else will be able to modify it. Write permissions allow the system to access the fopen i/o requirements.

They can read, but not write to it as you are the owner.

[lentin64]

try to go through FTP and change it's properties permissions and set it to "Write" in All Users.