On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Richard Heyes <richard@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> So I guess that making "somefile.txt" with PHP is not possible for Win XP > > Er, no. But the permissions system on Windows is greatly different to > Unix. You could make it (and the containing directory) world > writeable, and work backwards from there (ie making it not so world > writeable). > On the subject of not-so-world-writeable, you just need to identify the user that your web server uses. By default in IIS, that user is the Internet Guest Account and is usually named IUSR_[machine name], though it can be different (especially if the web server is part of a domain). I'm not sure what account Apache for Windows uses. Once you identify the account, it needs to have Modify (which, for files, includes Read & Execute, Read, and Write) permission on the file being edited. If the file does not already exist, then that account needs to have Modify (which, for folders, includes Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, Read, and Write) permission on the folder where it will be created. It's still technically "world-writeable" since you are giving permission to your web server to write files and anyone in the world that is using your web site is running as that user, but it's not as open as giving permission to the Everyone group. Also, I'm not sure if is_writeable()/is_writable() work correctly under Windows. There are some comments in the documentation about it not using Groups or Windows ACLs. YMMV Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
