cannot create file. Access denied

[Anon]

hello!
i have this problem.
i am on a win 2000 with iis 5 machine and i try to create a text file in a directory under the root dir.
it says :
can't create file. access denied.
I suppose it must be with permissions of the directory.
how can i change the permissions or
How can i solve the problem if it's not what i thought?

Thanks!

[Anon]

Can you show some code? Win2k doesn't prevent php from writing files unless you have your dir readonly which I doubt is your problem if you created it.

[corsc]

Here is part of a script that i use to open up a log file and append some info to it.

// write hit data
$file = fopen( "d:\absolute_path_here\stats\validate.txt", "r+" );
fseek( $file, filesize( ""d:\absolute_path_here\stats\validate.txt" ) );

$write_data = "\nHit Made at: " . date( "H:i:s d/m/Y" ) . " \t RefNum: " . $RefNum . " \t Amount: " . $Amount . " \t Response: " . $response;

fwrite( $file, $write_data );
fclose( $file );

You will find with accessing files you can either has the absolute path like this one or use unix style relative paths. In this case i could have used:

$file = fopen( "./stats/validate.txt", "r+" );

As to the permissions, when writing to a file in windows, the internet guest user needs write access to the directory that contains the file as well as the file iteself.

I find the best way to do this is to create a directory just for the file and give the IUSR_SERVERNAME user full access to this new folder and all its subdirectories.