RE: [PHP] reading/writing files outside of web root

2005-02-17 Thread Phil Ewington - 43 Plc
Jason Wong wrote: On Wednesday 09 February 2005 02:31, Richard Lynch wrote: Phil Ewington - 43 Plc wrote: For some reason user_prefs will not open for read/write even when I tested it under apache.apache and chmod'd to 755, perhaps because /home is owned by root? Something

Re: [PHP] reading/writing files outside of web root

2005-02-09 Thread Richard Lynch
Jason Wong wrote: On Wednesday 09 February 2005 02:31, Richard Lynch wrote: Phil Ewington - 43 Plc wrote: For some reason user_prefs will not open for read/write even when I tested it under apache.apache and chmod'd to 755, perhaps because /home is owned by root? Something went

[PHP] reading/writing files outside of web root

2005-02-08 Thread Phil Ewington - 43 Plc
Hi All, I am revisiting a previous question posted here as after lots of investigation and code testing I cannot get what I want. I want to use PHP to read/write files that are outside of the web root and not owned by apache. To be specific... $HOME/.procmailrc $HOME/.spamassassin/user_prefs

Re: [PHP] reading/writing files outside of web root

2005-02-08 Thread Jason Wong
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 20:50, Phil Ewington - 43 Plc wrote: So my question is can I easily/safely edit files outside of the web root using PHP or is there a 3rd party command line tool to do this? Your real question is: can I easily/safely edit files that [the user running] PHP has no

Re: [PHP] reading/writing files outside of web root

2005-02-08 Thread Jochem Maas
Phil Ewington - 43 Plc wrote: Hi All, I am revisiting a previous question posted here as after lots of investigation and code testing I cannot get what I want. I want to use PHP to read/write files that are outside of the web root and not owned by apache. To be specific... $HOME/.procmailrc

Re: [PHP] reading/writing files outside of web root

2005-02-08 Thread Greg Donald
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:50:59 -, Phil Ewington - 43 Plc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question is can I easily/safely edit files outside of the web root using PHP or is there a 3rd party command line tool to do this? sudo can assist you with this task. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified

Re: [PHP] reading/writing files outside of web root

2005-02-08 Thread Richard Lynch
Phil Ewington - 43 Plc wrote: For some reason user_prefs will not open for read/write even when I tested it under apache.apache and chmod'd to 755, perhaps because /home is owned by root? Something went wrong with this test. You SHOULD have been able to read/write that file in PHP, assuming

Re: [PHP] reading/writing files outside of web root

2005-02-08 Thread Jason Wong
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 02:31, Richard Lynch wrote: Phil Ewington - 43 Plc wrote: For some reason user_prefs will not open for read/write even when I tested it under apache.apache and chmod'd to 755, perhaps because /home is owned by root? Something went wrong with this test.