Hi All, I am revisiting a previous question posted here as after lots of investigation and code testing I cannot get what I want. I want to use PHP to read/write files that are outside of the web root and not owned by apache. To be specific... $HOME/.procmailrc $HOME/.spamassassin/user_prefs .procmailrc must be owned by root.root and chmod'd to 600 or is does not work, user_prefs can be owned by anyone, it does not seem to care who or what the permissions are. The first problem is .procmailrc, someone on this list suggested to use chown/chmod in PHP to change the file so it can be read/written to by PHP, this I soon realized was not an option as the file owned by root cannot be changed. For some reason user_prefs will not open for read/write even when I tested it under apache.apache and chmod'd to 755, perhaps because /home is owned by root? So my question is can I easily/safely edit files outside of the web root using PHP or is there a 3rd party command line tool to do this? TIA --- Phil Ewington 43 Plc - Ashdale House 35 Broad Street, Wokingham Berkshire RG40 1AU T: +44 (0)1189 789 500 F: +44 (0)1189 784 994 E: mailto:phil.ewington@xxxxxxxxx W: www.soyouthink.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.6 - Release Date: 07/02/2005 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
