Re: no PHP scripts can write to files

[Tim McGeary <tim.mcgeary@xxxxxxxxxx>]

No, I don't have the open_basedir configured.  It is currently commented 
out.

Tim

Carlos A. Benavente wrote:
> Not 100% sure, but this may be due to an open_basedir restriction? Do 
> you have this directive set?
>
> I ran into a similar problem with *uploading* files via http and the 
> move_uploaded_file function, still can't write/create new files though, 
> and one thing I learned is that if you have the open_basedir set to, say 
> "./", and want to upload files, that you should also specify a /tmp 
> directory on your php.ini's file_upload_dir directive.
>
> When you upload files with the move_uploaded_file function, it first 
> creates a temp file on your /tmp directory and then moves it to the 
> final target path. Now if you are opening a file for write, not sure if 
> the file is copied 1st to the /tmp directory, it gets modified, and then 
> moved to its final destination. If the latter is the case, then you may 
> want set additional php_admin_value open_basedir values and include /tmp
>
> Hope this makes sense.
>
> Carlos
>
> Tim McGeary wrote:
> > After getting all of my modules finally seen dynamically, I'm trying 
> > to install three different PHP applications, and all of them are 
> > complaining that they cannot write to files.
> >
> > They are all owned by apache.apache so the webserver has ownership, 
> > and I have tried permissions from 644 to 777 with no luck whatsoever.
> >
> > I confirmed that /etc/php.ini does NOT have safe_mode turned on, but I 
> > cannot figure out what other setting or installation issue would be 
> > causing these PHP installation scripts to be unable to write.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tim
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