On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 3:41 PM Willie M <matthews.willie80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 5/7/19 12:33 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > > I have a PHP app and it runs from /var/www/html/foo. It writes to a > > log file in there log.txt. To do some testing I created a dir > > /var/www/html/foo.new and installed the code there. To switch back and > > forth I do this: > > > > mv /var/www/html/foo /var/www/html/foo.old > > mv /var/www/html/foo.new /var/www/html/foo > > > > When I do that I get an error writing to the log file: > > > > Error #2: fopen(/var/www/html/foo/log.txt): failed to open stream: > > Permission denied > > > > But if I switch back: > > > > mv /var/www/html/foo /var/www/html/foo.new > > mv /var/www/html/foo.old /var/www/html/foo > > > > I do not get the error. The code is identical in foo and foo.new and > > the perms and owner on log.txt is identical in too and foo.new. I have > > tried restating apache and rebooting the machine, but no joy. > > > > What could be causing the permission error? > > Who owns the foo.new and the foo.old directories? That is most likely > where the problem is. Both are owned by root.root with mode 755. I tried chmod-ing foo.old to 777 but still get the error.
