On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 09:19 +0000, Nathan Rixham wrote: > Rick Dwyer wrote: > > Hello List. > > I have been playing around with PHP, running a few tutorials and I came > > across an error message I could not resolve. > > > > The tutorial is Generating One Time URL's by Oreilly: > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/php/2002/12/05/one_time_URLs.html > > > > Basically the PHP code is supposed to read from a text file and write to > > a text file and serve a text file all located in the "tmp" directory of > > the server. > > > > However, I receive the error that the referenced files in the PHP code > > could not be found: > > "Warning: readfile(/tmp/secret_file.txt) [function.readfile]: failed to > > open stream: No such file or directory > > in/home/mysite/myfolder/get_file.php on line 67" > > > > Line 66 and 67 look like this: > > > > $secretfile = "/tmp/secret_file.txt"; > > readfile($secretfile); > > > > > > However, in the tmp folder, I have created a simple text file called > > "secret_file.txt" so I know it exists and it has the permissions set to > > 644, so it should be readable. > > > > Can someone point out to me what I am doing wrong? Thanks, > > > > try permissions of 777 and see if the error disappears; odds are v high > that the httpd user php is running under doesn't have group or owner > permissions for /tmp & that secret file. > > regards > > That shouldn't fix it. 644 permissions allow the owner, group users and anybody else to read file. Have you tried is_file("/tmp/secret_file.txt"); to see if it actually exists? Also, don't forget that Linux is case sensitive when it comes to filenames, so secret_file.txt is completely different from Secret_File.txt, and in-fact you can validly have both in the same directory. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
