CHMOD help

Hello everyone, =]


I need your help,

I'm creating a script that will work in many servers, and there's this part,
where you can update a list, so the script goes from the client's machine to
the central server, opens the file, and in adda line by line in the client
server, it's all working fine, but there's a problem, this list, can't be
available to others, because if I do this:


www.test.com/list/test.txt

I can see the hole list, if I remove the permissions, my script wont work
anymore, what can I do ?

I've thought that I could chmod the file to 0777, make it a copy, and remove
the permission, so the file would't be available for others that just enter
the URL.
But it doesn't work at all, here's the error I get:


Warning: chmod(): Unable to access www.test.com/proxy/ in
/home/test/public_html/clicksentinel/form_classes.php on line 859

Warning: chmod(): No such file or directory in
/home/test/public_html/clicksentinel/form_classes.php on line 859
Sorry, try again later, error at data number5You have an error in your SQL
syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for
the right syntax to use near 't have permission to access
/proxy/proxylist.txt')' at line 1


Please, I really need some help,

tks a lot

Freebird

>I'm creating a script that will work in many servers, and there's this part,[color=blue]
>where you can update a list, so the script goes from the client's machine to
>the central server, opens the file, and in adda line by line in the client
>server, it's all working fine, but there's a problem, this list, can't be
>available to others, because if I do this:
>
>
>www.test.com/list/test.txt[/color]

You pass an *ABSOLUTE FILE PATHNAME* to chmod. Not a URL.
[color=blue]
>I can see the hole list, if I remove the permissions, my script wont work
>anymore, what can I do ?
>
>I've thought that I could chmod the file to 0777, make it a copy, and remove
>the permission, so the file would't be available for others that just enter
>the URL.[/color]

If you're expecting security, this won't work, because as long as the
file has the permissions on, someone *could* fetch it.
[color=blue]
>But it doesn't work at all, here's the error I get:
>
>
>Warning: chmod(): Unable to access www.test.com/proxy/ in
>/home/test/public_html/clicksentinel/form_classes.php on line 859
>
>Warning: chmod(): No such file or directory in
>/home/test/public_html/clicksentinel/form_classes.php on line 859
>Sorry, try again later, error at data number5You have an error in your SQL
>syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for
>the right syntax to use near 't have permission to access
>/proxy/proxylist.txt')' at line 1[/color]

You have a file with that long, complicated filename that includes
a bunch of newlines and the text of MySQL error messages in the name?
[color=blue]
>Please, I really need some help,[/color]

Output the file name before passing it to chmod(). Verify that it
is correct.

Gordon L. Burditt

"Freebird" <peoplel@hotmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>
>Hello everyone, =]
>I need your help,
>
>I'm creating a script that will work in many servers, and there's this part,
>where you can update a list, so the script goes from the client's machine to
>the central server, opens the file, and in adda line by line in the client
>server, it's all working fine, but there's a problem, this list, can't be
>available to others, because if I do this:
>
>www.test.com/list/test.txt
>
>I can see the hole list, if I remove the permissions, my script wont work
>anymore, what can I do ?[/color]

Why don't you put the file in some other location, outside of the web site?

Barring that, you should be able to use a .htaccess file to make the file
invisible to browsers.
--
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.