fopen() Permission denied

[Lee C. Haas]

I have created the file lhcount.data with the content the number 1 in
it.
This file is in the same directory (public_html) as the following
index.php file that contains the following code:

<?php
echo("count");
$fh = fopen('lhcount.data','r+');

result is:
count
Warning: fopen(lhcount.data): failed to open stream: Permission denied
in /home/abc/public_html/index.php

The permissions are:
public_html directory rwxrwx- - -
lhcount.data rwxrwxr- -
index.php rw-r- -r- -

phpadmin() shows the following:
safe_mode is off
open_basedir has no value set

I'm at a loss. I have used this with success at another web host.

Thanks for any advice.
Lee Haas, Raleigh, NC
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[Julien CROUZET]

Dans son message précédent, Lee C. Haas a écrit :

I have created the file lhcount.data with the content the number 1 in
it.
This file is in the same directory (public_html) as the following
index.php file that contains the following code:

<?php
echo("count");
$fh = fopen('lhcount.data','r+');

result is:
count
Warning: fopen(lhcount.data): failed to open stream: Permission denied
in /home/abc/public_html/index.php

The permissions are:
public_html directory rwxrwx- - -
lhcount.data rwxrwxr- -
index.php rw-r- -r- -

phpadmin() shows the following:
safe_mode is off
open_basedir has no value set

I'm at a loss. I have used this with success at another web host.

Please copy/paste the output of this piece of code :

<?
echo 'Id: ' . getmyuid() . '<br />';
echo 'Gid: ' . getmygid() . '<br />';
echo '<br />';
echo nl2br(print_r(stat('index.php'), true));
?>
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[Julien CROUZET]

Il se trouve que Julien CROUZET a formulé :

Please copy/paste the output of this piece of code :

I meant :

<?
echo 'Id: ' . getmyuid() . '<br />';
echo 'Gid: ' . getmygid() . '<br />';
echo '<br />';
echo nl2br(print_r(stat('lhcount.data'), true));
?>

Sorry for that.

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[Alex]

You should allow your public_html directory to be searchable by all.

chmod 755 public_html.

If that doesn't work, do ls -al to figure out your username/group
ownerships. If the server HTTP process is not running as one of those
then your user/group permissions don't really matter because the only
way it will be able to read/write from that file will come from the
"world" permissions.

Alex
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[Lee C. Haas]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:29:55 +0100, "Julien CROUZET"
<julien.crouzet@/enlever ca\theoconcept.com> wrote:

Il se trouve que Julien CROUZET a formulé :

Please copy/paste the output of this piece of code :

<?
echo 'Id: ' . getmyuid() . '<br />';
echo 'Gid: ' . getmygid() . '<br />';
echo '<br />';
echo nl2br(print_r(stat('lhcount.data'), true));
?>

I added php to the <? at the start.

Below are the results of the code you gave me. Am I an idiot for
responding with data that should not be made public?

I do not know what to do with this information.
Thank you for your interest.

- Lee

Id: 32006
Gid: 507

Array
(
[0] => 771
[1] => 5980982
[2] => 33188
[3] => 1
[4] => 32006
[5] => 507
[6] => 0
[7] => 3923
[8] => 1140231574
[9] => 1140231540
[10] => 1140231541
[11] => 4096
[12] => 8
[dev] => 771
[ino] => 5980982
[mode] => 33188
[nlink] => 1
[uid] => 32006
[gid] => 507
[rdev] => 0
[size] => 3923
[atime] => 1140231574
[mtime] => 1140231540
[ctime] => 1140231541
[blksize] => 4096
[blocks] => 8
)
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[samudasu]

Do as Alex said before. Chmod to 755. The reason the file can't be
opened is because apache, which usually runs as user nobody (is the
user that will open the file). The way you have your permissions set
only you and users that are part of your group have read / write access
to your directory and lhcount.data.

[Lee C. Haas]

On 17 Feb 2006 13:48:32 -0800, "Alex" <sp*******@gmail.com> wrote:

You should allow your public_html directory to be searchable by all.
chmod 755 public_html.
...
Alex

Thanks Alex and "samudasu," changing permissions was the key.

I had to change
lhcount.data to 766
public_html directory to 750

I don't understand why it didn't have to be 755 (which also worked)
and I don't understand why index.php worked with permissions 644.
index.php has the php code in it and I would have thought it would
need "execute" permission.
Is this explained clearly somewhere?

Following I is the complete php script I am using for a simple text
counter.

<SPAN style="float : right; color : #999999;">
<?php
/* The file lhcount.data with an initial number must be created in
the same directory as the file with this script */
$fh = fopen('lhcount.data','r+');
$Count=fgets($fh,64);
rewind($fh);
fwrite ($fh, ++$Count);
fclose ($fh);
echo($Count);
?>
</SPAN>

Thanks for the help.
Lee Haas, Raleigh, NC
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[Jerry Stuckle]

Lee C. Haas wrote:

On 17 Feb 2006 13:48:32 -0800, "Alex" <sp*******@gmail.com> wrote:

You should allow your public_html directory to be searchable by all.
chmod 755 public_html.
...
Alex

Thanks Alex and "samudasu," changing permissions was the key.

I had to change
lhcount.data to 766
public_html directory to 750

I don't understand why it didn't have to be 755 (which also worked)
and I don't understand why index.php worked with permissions 644.
index.php has the php code in it and I would have thought it would
need "execute" permission.
Is this explained clearly somewhere?

Following I is the complete php script I am using for a simple text
counter.

<SPAN style="float : right; color : #999999;">
<?php
/* The file lhcount.data with an initial number must be created in
the same directory as the file with this script */
$fh = fopen('lhcount.data','r+');
$Count=fgets($fh,64);
rewind($fh);
fwrite ($fh, ++$Count);
fclose ($fh);
echo($Count);
?>
</SPAN>

Thanks for the help.
Lee Haas, Raleigh, NC
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index.php is not an executable program. It's only a script - which is
processed by the php interpreter (php or php.exe), which is an executable.

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[Jasen Betts]

On 2006-02-18, Lee C Haas <Nu**@Address.org> wrote:

On 17 Feb 2006 13:48:32 -0800, "Alex" <sp*******@gmail.com> wrote:

You should allow your public_html directory to be searchable by all.
chmod 755 public_html.
...
Alex
Thanks Alex and "samudasu," changing permissions was the key.

I had to change
lhcount.data to 766
public_html directory to 750

I don't understand why it didn't have to be 755 (which also worked)

In your case the web server may have the same group as the directory.
and I don't understand why index.php worked with permissions 644.
index.php has the php code in it and I would have thought it would
need "execute" permission.
Is this explained clearly somewhere?
php scripts don't need execute because they aren't run by name (constrast
with shell scripts) but instead they are run by invoking php to interpret
them (or using a webserver plugin etc)
Following I is the complete php script I am using for a simple text
counter.

<SPAN style="float : right; color : #999999;">
<?php
/* The file lhcount.data with an initial number must be created in
the same directory as the file with this script */
$fh = fopen('lhcount.data','r+');
$Count=fgets($fh,64);
rewind($fh);
fwrite ($fh, ++$Count);
fclose ($fh);
echo($Count);
?>
</SPAN>

lhcount data doesn't need owner exec permission 666 would be OK.
600 or 644 would be better if you can adjust the user-id to match that of the
webserver.

Bye.
Jasen