NYCPHP Meetup

[Analysis & Solutions]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:31:33AM -0500, Phil Powell wrote:

> Warning: fopen("/users/ppowell/web/chat/nicknames.txt", "a") -
> Permission denied in /users/ppowell/web/chat/chat.php on line 163
> ... snip...
> If anyone can help, please tell me what to do, the PHP manuals are not
> giving me a clear solution as to how to write to a file that does not 
> yet exist that has to have the permissions of 0755 for both files.

You need write permissions on the directory in order to be able to create 
files in it.  Remember, the user that PHP is running as is the one you 
need to give the permissions to.

--Dan

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