PHP Warning: Failed to open stream: Permission Denied

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 17:45 -0500, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 09:57 -0500, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
>         >
>         >
>         > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Tim Evans
>         <tkevans at tkevans.com> wrote:
>         >
>         >         Matthew Benjamin wrote:
>         >
>         >         > $myFile = "./text.txt";
>         >
>         >         I would suggest a full path here instead of a
>         relative one, to
>         >         a directory
>         >         you know is writable by the apache user.
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>         > That did not work. Here is an example of my directory
>         structure
>         >
>         > drwxrwxrwx  2 apache   apache   4096 May  7 09:50 .
>         > drwxr-xrwx   5 apache   apache   4096 May  6 10:40 ..
>         > -rwx-w--w-    1 apache   apache    947 May  7 09:50
>          text.txt
>         
>         
>         If this is a direct cut-and-paste from your terminal, it looks
>         from here
>         like text.txt has an extra space before it, i.e. it's "
>         text.txt". Of
>         course that may be an artefact.
>         
>         poc
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>  
> it's not just a mistake. I can write and read to the file if it is
> already created. I just can't create the file if it does not exist.

Remember that it's not only necessary for the apache user to have write
permission on the directory (which it appears to have) but search ('x')
permission on every directory above it back to '/',
i.e. /var/www/html/dir1/dir2, /var/www/html/dir1, /var/www/html etc.

poc