why can't I write to a file?

[Anon]

when I try to write to a file use fwrite() in my own site, which is in the same folder of my php file. I got a permission deny error message.

[brandonschnell]

apache is running as a different user then what you use to logon to the server. the folder apache is trying to access is owned by a different user and global write permissions has not been set. chown the folder/file to the user that apache is running as (default: nobody.nobody)

[Anon]

is there any way I can figure it out?