I believe it is a *nix server. I haven't looked into directory permissions
before but that is an area I will definately look into. If this was a
problem with the directory permissions, would the problem still disappear if
a file with the correct name was already in the directory?
-Thanks
Andrew V. Romero
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David Robley wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:20, Andrew V. Romero wrote:
> > Today I was uploading my completed script to my school's server at
> > http://www.u.arizona.edu/~avr/school/questionanswer.phtml?questionFileN
> >ame=testQA and noticed when I fill in the form and hit submit, I get a
> > lot of errors such as unable to access current working directory,
> > unable to access my file, and unable to find file identifier. In
> > problem shooting, I changed the permissions of all the files for this
> > script so that everyone can read write and execute them but I still get
> > the errors. I suspect it has to do with the way my script creates a
> > file. In qa.php3 I have the following line which seems to create a file
> > if it does not exist:
> > $answerFile = "$questionFileName-A.txt"; Then I go along and open this
> > later with $wa=fopen("$answerFile","a");
> > In problem shooting I tried uploading a blank file with the name
> > $questionFileName-A.txt and it worked just fine after that, but that
> > will not work for my long term goals On my home computer with win98,
> > apache, and php this seems to work without a hitch (even if the file
> > doesn't exist), but appartently it doesn't work for my school's server.
> > I was wondering why it works on my computer but not on the server (I
> > suspect it may have something to do with security)??
> >
> > To get around this, I supose I need a few lines of code that first test
> > if my file exist and then if it doesn't I will have to create it using
> > the touch command?? Any other ideas?
>
> Is this a *nix server? In which case you may have problems with the
> directory permissions. Note that the directory as well as file
> permissions must be set to allow the webserver user to read and write if
> you wish to create files. Also the directory structure must at least
> allow access down the tree to the point where you are working.
>
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