Re: [PHP] cannot figure out permissions for fopen/fwrite
Mari Masuda wrote:
Yes, currently the tmp folder (or any folders in my Apache htdocs
folder) is not accessible to the web due to the Mac's built-in firewall
set to block all incoming traffic except network time and something
installed by Adobe when I installed CS4 (e.g., Photoshop, InDesign,
etc.). However, I was wondering what the normal technique is for
writing files if the script that does the fopen/fwrite is located on a
production server that IS on the web. It occurred to me that I could
create a 777 folder outside of the web root so that it would not be
accessible on the web even if the script was running on a production
server, but I wasn't sure if that was a good or bad idea.
On Jul 2, 2009, at 17:59, Waynn Lue wrote:
The tmp folder isn't accessible from the web though, right? Someone
would first have to get access to your server for that.
On 7/1/09, Mari Masuda mbmas...@stanford.edu wrote:
On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:54, Shawn McKenzie wrote:
Mari Masuda wrote:
On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:20, Shawn McKenzie wrote:
Shawn McKenzie wrote:
Mari Masuda wrote:
Hello,
This is probably a dumb newbie question. I am running PHP
5.2.5 and
Apache 2.2.8 on my Mac Book Pro OS X 10.4.11. I compiled PHP and
Apache
from source a while ago (as opposed to using the built-in web
server
that is included w/ Mac OS X). I have written the below PHP whose
purpose is to read an existing comma separated (CSV) file and
save the
data into a text file that I can later copy and paste from into my
website content management system. The problem is that on my
Mac, I
cannot seem to figure out what permissions I need to set in
order to
make the input CSV and the initially non-existant output text file
readable and writable by Apache/PHP. I have Googled and come
across
many pages about different ways to set permissions and different
permissions to set but none of the ways suggested that I tried
seemed to
work for me. As a temporary solution, I uploaded my PHP file to a
Windows 2003 server running Apache and PHP and it worked
flawlessly
(and
makes me suspicious that there is some huge security hole with the
Windows box since it was able to execute with no permissions
modifications). Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Mari
--- start my code ---
?php
$in = fopen(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/wp.csv, r);
$out =
fopen(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tableToCutAndPaste.txt,
w);
$counter = 0;
fwrite($out, table\n);
while(($data = fgetcsv($in)) !== FALSE) {
$paperNumber = $data[0];
$authors = $data[1];
$title = $data[2];
$filename = $paperNumber . .pdf;
if(($counter % 2) == 0) {
fwrite($out, tr\n);
} else {
fwrite($out, tr style=\background: #cc;\\n);
}
fwrite($out, tda
href=\http://www.example.com/workingpapers/getWorkingPaper.php?
filename=$filename\$paperNumber/a/td\n);
fwrite($out, td$authors/td\n);
fwrite($out, td$title/td\n);
fwrite($out, /tr\n);
$counter++;
}
fwrite($out, /table\n);
fclose($in);
fclose($out);
?
--- end my code ---
What are the permissions on /Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/ ?
Apache needs write permissions on that dir in order to create
the file
tableToCutAndPaste.txt.
It's probably not a secure idea to give write permissions to
that dir,
so maybe create a subdir of tmp and change those permissions
(one way):
mkdir /Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp
chmod a+w /Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp
Also, turn on error reporting so that you can see the exact
problem. It
may not be what you think.
--
Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com
Thanks for the suggestions. I added the following lines to the
very top
of my code:
error_reporting(E_ALL);
mkdir(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp, 0777, true);
chmod(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp, a+w);
and I also changed the line where it tries to open the file to
write to
to go to the new directory:
$out =
fopen(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp/
tableToCutAndPaste.txt,
w);
Below are the errors I got:
--- start errors ---
Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 5
Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: No such file or directory in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 6
Warning:
fopen(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp/tableToCutAndPaste.txt)
[function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 9
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream
resource in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 13
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream
resource in
Re: [PHP] cannot figure out permissions for fopen/fwrite
The tmp folder isn't accessible from the web though, right? Someone
would first have to get access to your server for that.
On 7/1/09, Mari Masuda mbmas...@stanford.edu wrote:
On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:54, Shawn McKenzie wrote:
Mari Masuda wrote:
On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:20, Shawn McKenzie wrote:
Shawn McKenzie wrote:
Mari Masuda wrote:
Hello,
This is probably a dumb newbie question. I am running PHP
5.2.5 and
Apache 2.2.8 on my Mac Book Pro OS X 10.4.11. I compiled PHP and
Apache
from source a while ago (as opposed to using the built-in web
server
that is included w/ Mac OS X). I have written the below PHP whose
purpose is to read an existing comma separated (CSV) file and
save the
data into a text file that I can later copy and paste from into my
website content management system. The problem is that on my
Mac, I
cannot seem to figure out what permissions I need to set in
order to
make the input CSV and the initially non-existant output text file
readable and writable by Apache/PHP. I have Googled and come
across
many pages about different ways to set permissions and different
permissions to set but none of the ways suggested that I tried
seemed to
work for me. As a temporary solution, I uploaded my PHP file to a
Windows 2003 server running Apache and PHP and it worked
flawlessly
(and
makes me suspicious that there is some huge security hole with the
Windows box since it was able to execute with no permissions
modifications). Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Mari
--- start my code ---
?php
$in = fopen(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/wp.csv, r);
$out =
fopen(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tableToCutAndPaste.txt,
w);
$counter = 0;
fwrite($out, table\n);
while(($data = fgetcsv($in)) !== FALSE) {
$paperNumber = $data[0];
$authors = $data[1];
$title = $data[2];
$filename = $paperNumber . .pdf;
if(($counter % 2) == 0) {
fwrite($out, tr\n);
} else {
fwrite($out, tr style=\background: #cc;\\n);
}
fwrite($out, tda
href=\http://www.example.com/workingpapers/getWorkingPaper.php?
filename=$filename\$paperNumber/a/td\n);
fwrite($out, td$authors/td\n);
fwrite($out, td$title/td\n);
fwrite($out, /tr\n);
$counter++;
}
fwrite($out, /table\n);
fclose($in);
fclose($out);
?
--- end my code ---
What are the permissions on /Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/ ?
Apache needs write permissions on that dir in order to create
the file
tableToCutAndPaste.txt.
It's probably not a secure idea to give write permissions to
that dir,
so maybe create a subdir of tmp and change those permissions
(one way):
mkdir /Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp
chmod a+w /Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp
Also, turn on error reporting so that you can see the exact
problem. It
may not be what you think.
--
Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com
Thanks for the suggestions. I added the following lines to the
very top
of my code:
error_reporting(E_ALL);
mkdir(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp, 0777, true);
chmod(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp, a+w);
and I also changed the line where it tries to open the file to
write to
to go to the new directory:
$out =
fopen(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp/
tableToCutAndPaste.txt,
w);
Below are the errors I got:
--- start errors ---
Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 5
Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: No such file or directory in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 6
Warning:
fopen(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp/tableToCutAndPaste.txt)
[function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 9
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream
resource in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 13
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream
resource in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 22
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream
resource in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 27
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream
resource in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 28
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream
resource in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 29
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream
resource in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 30
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream
resource in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 35
Warning: fclose():
Re: [PHP] cannot figure out permissions for fopen/fwrite
Yes, currently the tmp folder (or any folders in my Apache htdocs
folder) is not accessible to the web due to the Mac's built-in
firewall set to block all incoming traffic except network time and
something installed by Adobe when I installed CS4 (e.g., Photoshop,
InDesign, etc.). However, I was wondering what the normal technique
is for writing files if the script that does the fopen/fwrite is
located on a production server that IS on the web. It occurred to me
that I could create a 777 folder outside of the web root so that it
would not be accessible on the web even if the script was running on
a production server, but I wasn't sure if that was a good or bad idea.
On Jul 2, 2009, at 17:59, Waynn Lue wrote:
The tmp folder isn't accessible from the web though, right? Someone
would first have to get access to your server for that.
On 7/1/09, Mari Masuda mbmas...@stanford.edu wrote:
On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:54, Shawn McKenzie wrote:
Mari Masuda wrote:
On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:20, Shawn McKenzie wrote:
Shawn McKenzie wrote:
Mari Masuda wrote:
Hello,
This is probably a dumb newbie question. I am running PHP
5.2.5 and
Apache 2.2.8 on my Mac Book Pro OS X 10.4.11. I compiled PHP
and
Apache
from source a while ago (as opposed to using the built-in web
server
that is included w/ Mac OS X). I have written the below PHP
whose
purpose is to read an existing comma separated (CSV) file and
save the
data into a text file that I can later copy and paste from
into my
website content management system. The problem is that on my
Mac, I
cannot seem to figure out what permissions I need to set in
order to
make the input CSV and the initially non-existant output text
file
readable and writable by Apache/PHP. I have Googled and come
across
many pages about different ways to set permissions and different
permissions to set but none of the ways suggested that I tried
seemed to
work for me. As a temporary solution, I uploaded my PHP file
to a
Windows 2003 server running Apache and PHP and it worked
flawlessly
(and
makes me suspicious that there is some huge security hole
with the
Windows box since it was able to execute with no permissions
modifications). Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Mari
--- start my code ---
?php
$in = fopen(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/wp.csv,
r);
$out =
fopen(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/
tableToCutAndPaste.txt,
w);
$counter = 0;
fwrite($out, table\n);
while(($data = fgetcsv($in)) !== FALSE) {
$paperNumber = $data[0];
$authors = $data[1];
$title = $data[2];
$filename = $paperNumber . .pdf;
if(($counter % 2) == 0) {
fwrite($out, tr\n);
} else {
fwrite($out, tr style=\background: #cc;\
\n);
}
fwrite($out, tda
href=\http://www.example.com/workingpapers/getWorkingPaper.php?
filename=$filename\$paperNumber/a/td\n);
fwrite($out, td$authors/td\n);
fwrite($out, td$title/td\n);
fwrite($out, /tr\n);
$counter++;
}
fwrite($out, /table\n);
fclose($in);
fclose($out);
?
--- end my code ---
What are the permissions on /Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/ ?
Apache needs write permissions on that dir in order to create
the file
tableToCutAndPaste.txt.
It's probably not a secure idea to give write permissions to
that dir,
so maybe create a subdir of tmp and change those permissions
(one way):
mkdir /Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp
chmod a+w /Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp
Also, turn on error reporting so that you can see the exact
problem. It
may not be what you think.
--
Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com
Thanks for the suggestions. I added the following lines to the
very top
of my code:
error_reporting(E_ALL);
mkdir(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp, 0777, true);
chmod(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp, a+w);
and I also changed the line where it tries to open the file to
write to
to go to the new directory:
$out =
fopen(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp/
tableToCutAndPaste.txt,
w);
Below are the errors I got:
--- start errors ---
Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 5
Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: No such file or directory in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 6
Warning:
fopen(/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/tmp/
tableToCutAndPaste.txt)
[function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or
directory in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 9
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream
resource in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 13
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream
resource in
/Applications/apache/htdocs/wp-php/generateTable.php on line 22
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a
