Thanks everybody! I guess I was a little vague. I'm working on an OpenSUSE setup with Apache, MySQL and PHP. I just knew that my confusion was because of my Windows up-bringing. The writing I referred to was to a file. One example is I had a script that was pulling data from a database and using it to generate PDF files. This would work fine from the command line but _not_ if I pointed a browser at it. It wasn't an important difference because that script is a cronjob anyway. I just wanted to understand what was going on and how I could change it -- if I find later that I need to. Again, that's for the rapid and thorough help! G On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:17 PM, haliphax <haliphax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 16:59, George Larson <george.g.larson@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> > >> Am I imagining things? If not, how would I properly make them able to > run > >> through a browser? > > > > You're not imagining things. In general, unless set up with > > SuExec privileges, Apache (which is probably the HTTP server you're > > using) will run as 'nobody,' 'apache,' 'www,' or 'daemon.' If you > > can't configure it to SuExec (check Google for some ideas on this.... > > you'll need root access), you could use the less-secure (this, not > > recommended) options of changing the file mode permissions to 0777 or > > change the file ownership (if you have the right permissions yourself) > > to be owned by the same user and/or group as which Apache runs. > > > > It may sound a little confusing at first glance, but it's really > > not. Just keep in mind that UNIX and Linux (Mac and similar OS'es > > fall in here, too) are simultaneous multi-user systems, meaning that > > many users (including virtual users that the system uses as aliases > > for individualized permissions) can be "logged in" and run processes > > concurrently. > > OP is a Windows user. I am assuming that they are using Windows. > > George, if you are using IIS as your web server, PHP will be executed > (by default, anyway) under the IUSR_<your computer name> user account > (pre-Vista). The directories and files your PHP script will need to > mess with should be given the appropriate permissions as related to > that user. > > HTH, > > > -- > // Todd >
