Create a text file in windows

[Anon]

Hi:

I want to create a text file with some information of a database in a Windows directory using PHP.

I try to open a file with this command

$file = fopen("c:\proof\$fichname","a");

and the browser when i was in windows say me
"permission deny"

I try to do it when i was in Linux with this command

$file = fopen("/proof/$fichname","a");

and it works!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you help me???????
Where is the problem?????????

[Anon]

try making "\" "\"

[Anon]

Try forward slashes...

[corsc]

Both single and double slashes should work.

The problem is permissions.

For IIS:
You need to allow the IUSR_SERVERNAME user (the user IIS runs under) to have write permissions on the file you want to write to AND directory in which the file sits.

I would recommend you put the file in its own directory and then assign appropriate permissions so you dont give unnecessary permissions to your other files.

For Apache:
I can't remember properly but I am pretty sure it is the same issue. The user under which the web service (or PHP) does not have approrate permissions to the file and/or directory in which the file sits.